Quotes by Playwrights

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing. Jerome Lawrence
You Better Musical Cartoon Sing Make Making Than Going Reason Play
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us. Jerome Lawrence
Good Failure You Good Things Better Peers Television Must More Demand Because Around Theater Us Your Film Why Things
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again. Jerome Lawrence
Today Competition Walk Stage Pay Back Our Broadway Out Bored Boredom Only Price Prices Come Because Going Theater Again Play
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste. Joe Orton
Good People Good Taste Kind Bad About Invariably Bad Taste Always Go Very Taste Whether Who Thing
I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it. John B. Keane
Woman Think Out Dressed Drink Freed Go Handbags Up Irish Now Deserve Bingo Play Slavery
Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up. John B. Keane
Happy Our Hurting Tackling Up Getting Listen Lads Them Keep Now
A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else. John B. Keane
Good Inferiority Everybody Everybody Else Else Complex He Footballer Inferiority Complex Just Who Thinks Kerry
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do. John Guare
Beautiful You People Value Wow See Spirit Cost Beautiful Paintings Practical How How Much Go Human Much Paintings Shows Human Spirit
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that. John Guare
Music Listening Respond Possibilities City Spirit About Remarkable New Always How Ballet York Human New York New York City New York City Ballet Human Body Realm Body Human Spirit
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. John Guare
Comedy Humiliation Tragedy Avoiding Core
I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger. John Guare
Me Broken Man School Try Garbage Summer Broadway Backstage Out Jobs Plumbing Marshall Dressing Dressing Room Haven New Town Still Doing Yelling Stock Leg Fixing Graduate Graduate School Wooden Room Worked Route Her Herbert Plays
All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs. John Guare
Beautiful Home City Runs Beautiful Home New Does Ballet Hit York New York New York City New York City Ballet Home Runs
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet. John Guare
Great Stage Broadway Broadway Show Would Would-Be City New Ballet York New York New York City New York City Ballet Show Now Numbers
I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes. John Guare
World Money Financial Whatever City Through New Passes York Goes New York New York City Where Mean Capital
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted. John Guare
Year Every Think Otherwise Alive Worthy City Take New Terrible Terrible Thing Because Ballet Celebration York Just New York New York City New York City Ballet Granted Thing
The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force. John Guare
Music Together Space Extraordinary Way Those Given Emotional Come Look Force Makes Ballet Geometry Wonder Controlled Listen Us Bodies
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive. John Guare
Life Dancer Alive City About Remarkable New Because Makes Ballet Tragically Forget York Short New York New York City New York City Ballet Us Keeps
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? John Guare
History World Word Become Live State Bad Most Did Where Amnesia
What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do. John Guare
Heart Eyes Possibilities Hopefully Variations Head Arms Dealt Human Legs Human Body Body Extensions Two
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater. John Guare
Love You Job College First National Stay Main Checking Around Got Any Love You Place Which Theater Fifties Coats Washington
Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves. John Osborne
God Alone Simple Universe Striking Ourselves Sunlight Somehow Seems Something Only Piece Make Rock Got Go Began Just Here
They spend their time looking forward to the past. John Osborne
Time Looking Past Spend Looking Forward Forward
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong. John Osborne
People Walk Think Out Something Deliberately Never Wrong Shock Set Plays
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man. John Osborne
Man Too Much Will Wine Too Indeed Dull Much Held Widely Desire
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. John Osborne
Character Man Changes More Drink True Clearly Reveal May
The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture. John Patrick
Culture People Market Web Entrenched Been Target Who
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