Zoe Kazan Quotes

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

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.

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

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

I'm a dramatist.

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

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 am an internationally produced playwright.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.

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 went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

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.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress.

I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

I wanted to go to theater school.

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.