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| Category | Quote | Last | First | |
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| Acting, Playwriting | It is the writer's job to make the play interesting. It is the actor's job to make the performance truthful. | Mamet | David | |
| Critics,Playwriting | Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. | Cocteau | Jean | |
| Critics,Playwriting | The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. | Tynan | Kenneth | |
| General, Playwriting | Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy. | Atkinson | Brooks | |
| General, Playwriting | The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. | Bagnold | Enid | |
| General, Playwriting | The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts. | Hare | David | |
| General, Playwriting | Drama - what literature does at night. | Nathan | George Jean | |
| General, Playwriting | I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. | Wilde | Oscar | |
| General, Playwriting, Acting | The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. | Albee | Edward | |
| General, playwriting, directing | The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch. | Giradoux | Jean | |
| Playwriting | The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours. | Adams | Lee | |
| Playwriting | A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. | Albee | Edward |