Edward Albee Quotes

If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

Luckily, due to my own ego, probably, I'm always quicker to blame other people.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his plays here.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

People should always know better.

If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that... Because it was not their fault.

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.

What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There's nothing worse than hearing somebody say 'Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,' and you have to agree with them, you know?

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

Is a gay play a play that has sex with other plays?

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.