Stewart Lee Quotes

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

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

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

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

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 love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

I wrote two plays before I was cast on 'The Neighbors.' They actually got published, which was cool.

I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in shows, but my true interest is in writing Broadway musicals.

I am an internationally produced playwright.

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.

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

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

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.

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.

I started in Shakespeare. I'm classically trained, which, how hilarious is that? Then one night, I saw Second City and thought, 'Wow, that's what I want to do.' But I never thought it would morph into screenplay writing.

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