John Francis Daley Quotes

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I started writing stories as a child.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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 had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.

I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to write my own things. Since then, I have written a couple of shows. I was nominated for playwright of the year for a play I wrote called 'Potential Space.'

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

I'm acting a lot when I'm writing for other people.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.