Richard Greenberg Quotes

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It helps me to write any play that I'm working on because I think one of the things I do well is write good roles for actors.

I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.

They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you wrote a musical, they would fully fund it and put it on the main stage with full costumes and a set and everything, and my roommate said we should totally do that.

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.

I love working in New York theater.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens.

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when I wasn't able to control it.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.