Quotes by Playwrights

I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time. Frank D. Gilroy

Time Believe Draws Something True Updating Being Works Play

You're looking at a guy who has no reason to complain about anything. Frank D. Gilroy

You Looking Complain About Guy No Reason Anything Reason Who

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. Frank Wedekind

Good Suits Virtue Only Looks Imposing Figures

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing. Garson Kanin

Life Love Best Spiritual Me Creative Believe Best Part Emotional Part Excitement Real Doing However Succeed Working

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it. George Ade

Good You Worth Pay Jolly

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. George Ade

Rugged More Only Attempt Mortals Up Current Literature Should Keep

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. George Ade

Entertainment Country City Traffic Just Form Popular Funeral Interruption

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. George Ade

Life Saver Generality Parlor Use Vague

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. George Ade

Yourself Pleasant Neighbors Look Unto Themselves Your

Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times, I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form. George C. Wolfe

Best You Writing Mind Sense Else Musicals Rigid Possibly Tried Archetypes Something Something Else Could Push Sophisticated Most Ultimately Very Times Get Different Form Against Informed Them Much Really Different Times

One of the things I learned very early on was that if you cast the show correctly, and if you've created the right energy in the room, the solution is also in the room. The solution doesn't necessarily come from someone, but if everybody is working in a very steadfast and rigorous way, then everything you're looking for is in the room. George C. Wolfe

You Looking Energy Everybody Everything Way Correctly One Of The Things Rigorous Solution Steadfast Someone Cast Come Also Learned Very Room Then Created Working Show Right Things Necessarily Early

I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play. George C. Wolfe

Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess! George C. Wolfe

Art You Mess Hamlet Anytime Mean Create

I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful. George C. Wolfe

Beautiful Art More Attracted Shelf Am Than

I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku. George C. Wolfe

Love Theater

The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private. George C. Wolfe

Writing Private Very Theater Public Requires

To want to come to New York, you have to have a sense of wonder about the world and a foolish sense of worth about yourself. And I, too, had both of those things. George C. Wolfe

You Yourself World Worth Sense Too Those About Both Foolish Had New Come Wonder York New York Want Things

I like to knock down walls and allow others to enter. George C. Wolfe

Walls Down Others Enter Allow Knock Like

When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free. George C. Wolfe

You Writing Free Everybody Guise Charge Directing Like Materials Really Acting Theory Actor Serving

When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater. George C. Wolfe

Love Myself Willed Town Joyful Most Childlike Theater

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. George C. Wolfe

Vision Everybody Commercial Artist Often Expense Theater Agenda Appeal Unique