#wright

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? ↗

— Richard Wright

#richard-wright #the-outsider #life

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#david #director #great #hate #him

I'm not a playwright. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#playwright

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#greater #interpreter #just #more #plays

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

— Wilson Mizner

#drama #him #informing #meant #person

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#doughnut #hole #like #playwright #without

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#budding #detective #detective story #even #form

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#blinds #deep #difficult #event #experience

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#character #i #other #playwright #pray

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#believe #characters #costume #else #few