12 Edward Albee Quotes for You to Enjoy

Edward Albee

American Dramatist

Born: Mar 12, 1928

Died: Sep 16, 2016

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Related authors: Clare Boothe Luce David Mamet George S. Kaufman Lillian Hellman Tennessee Williams Wilson Mizner Zora Neale Hurston

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope. Edward Albee

Snake Bitten Has-Been He Been Afraid Rope

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. Edward Albee

Mind Will Sense Immediately Respond Must Rather Know Loose Understand Impressions Than Happen Play Receive Gather

Never marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Edward Albee

You Money Marry Borrow Never Cheaper

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time. Edward Albee

Time Great People Wake Up Try Old Out Find Table Longest Longest Time Cry Make Sounds Been Wake Up Screaming Middle Hollow Old People Asleep Even Night

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly. Edward Albee

Life Work Funny Hope Grateful Will Long Beginning Whatever Funny Things Had Well Am End Very Begin Quickly Just Happens Theater Novice Satisfying Things Received Careers

That's all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that's all that's important; a sense of dignity. And it doesn't matter if you don't care or not, either. You got to have a sense of dignity, even if you don't care, 'cause, if you don't have that, civilization's doomed. Edward Albee

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. Edward Albee

Funny You Will Own Think Innocence Approach Liberating Wildly Responses Putting Terms Surprise Often Childlike Theater Avant-Garde Iconoclastic Aside Your Standard Fun Bold Apply

My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. Edward Albee

Time Important Gave Late Poetry Beckett Up Exposure Novel Right

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. Edward Albee

Sense Of Humor Humor Sense Fine No Sense Ridiculous

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you. Edward Albee

You Divorce Existed Swear

It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell. Edward Albee

Good Hell Both Idea Friends Heaven Good Idea

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