Edward Albee Quotes

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

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I've got, and the more I've written film and television, I find it incredibly hard to write theater.

I'm not a Shakespearean actor really, or a Shakespearean director.

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living doing it, but theater is about meeting an audience. Plays are not easier to write necessarily, they take less time to write. If you get them up, it's a much more rough-and-tumble kind of existence. I think it's, from my perspective, easier than novel writing.

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

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

I'm a dramatist.

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

With me, it was just a job. I never had stars in my eyes about the theatre.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.

I would totally love to do theater.

Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

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.

Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.