Quotes About Plays

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

I am Brianna Hildebrand; I play 'Negasonic Teenage Warhead'. She is a 15 year old psychic - she reads the future - and she also is her own personal cannonball: she's a warhead. So she runs at things and explodes at them, and she's Colossus' sidekick.

I started doing plays in New York while I was at Fordham, but I did graduate by the skin of my teeth.

When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill. When you're adapting, it is really all about the mechanics, so you feel closer to, I don't know, an accountant or someone who has a body of information. It's not all about temperament.

I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations.

All fine films, novels, and plays, through all shades of the comic and the tragic, entertain when they give the audience a fresh model of life empowered with an affective meaning.

Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.

Certain numerologists in Germany had figured out that the number nine was fateful to German artists. Beethoven, Bruckner, and Mahler each wrote nine symphonies, Wagner nine operas that are still sung, Schiller, Hebbel, and Grillparzer each nine plays that are still produced.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

Those first few plays of the game, you have a lot of adrenaline and excitement. It takes a little while to settle in and start playing football.

When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English Department. And through that, I started writing plays.

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

TV needs to be the medium for progress, not degeneration. There needs to be more programming for children. Plays need to become more responsible.

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

I did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.

Typically in training camp, especially as I've gotten older, we were always very selective with the plays. If it was a pass or a look I needed to get in the run game or pass protection, I was always in there to get it.

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.

With the rotations, a lot of them they're not fancy plays.

I was always the person in our class who was fascinated by new plays. I would go to the library all the time as new plays would come out.

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.

Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.