Quotes from Richard LaGravenese

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.

I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.

Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.

When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.

A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.

'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.

Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.

I'm very much interested in doing actual theater.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal.

We have people in our lives who help us evolve along the way. If you're lucky, you find someone who evolves along with you, and that's what you call a long-term relationship.