1515 quotes by playwrights for you to enjoy

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out. Terrence McNally

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I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time. Terrence McNally

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Nothing sounds as crazy as telling people you're not crazy. Theresa Rebeck

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I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am. Theresa Rebeck

Prolific Write Part Like Am Who

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from. Theresa Rebeck

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Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere. Theresa Rebeck

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It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be. Theresa Rebeck

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One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre. Theresa Rebeck

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I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. Theresa Rebeck

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I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud. Theresa Rebeck

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I had such a good experience doing 'The Understudy' with the Roundabout, and people were really enthusiastic about the work. Theresa Rebeck

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I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays. Theresa Rebeck

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I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment. Theresa Rebeck

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Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character. Theresa Rebeck

Life Character Try Out Rarely Make Creature Pull

Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them. Theresa Rebeck

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Does art have to have high foot traffic to get funded in a recession? A lot of people, I am sure, would say absolutely not. And those postmodern art-loving loners surely would argue that even if one person likes a piece of art, that would make a museum worthwhile. Theresa Rebeck

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Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do. Theresa Rebeck

I have two sensational kids who I have raised with my husband, hoping and working every day to help them become healthy, happy, and decent human beings. Theresa Rebeck

The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction. Theresa Rebeck

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