Edward Albee

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic. ↗

— Edward Albee

#critic #drama #today #were

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are. ↗

— Edward Albee

#show #swine #truffles #where #you

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. ↗

— Edward Albee

#between #critics #difference #group #humans

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. ↗

— Edward Albee

#creative person #makes #person #thing

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. ↗

— Edward Albee

#involvement #people #reality #really #theater

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. ↗

— Edward Albee

#character #every #extension #know #material

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. ↗

— Edward Albee

#happen #immediately #impressions #know #loose

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ↗

— Edward Albee

#come #correctly #distance #go #long

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ↗

— Edward Albee

#fine #i #ridiculous #sense #sense of humor

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. ↗

— Edward Albee

#always #anything #democracy #deserve #end