Quotes About Playwright

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.

I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional... waiter, for 3 years.

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.

I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as the playwright, I know how it goes, and there's the thought, 'Why can't they catch up?'

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.

I was a playwright who was still learning the ropes when Starz took a chance on me to create and showrun 'Vida.' They nurtured and supported me during every step of the strenuous process, and that is a debt that cannot be repaid.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

The Stoic philosopher and playwright Seneca is said to have owned five hundred tripod tables with ivory legs—no small irony, since he was a vocal critic of the empire's extravagances.

In 1613 William Shakespeare bought a house nearby for £124 – but did not live in it himself.

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.