Adam Conover Quotes

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

It's easier to cast yourself in something you've written because you know your voice.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.

My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.

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

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

The first time I ever heard professional actors delivering lines that I wrote was completely surreal and was just a gigantic moment in my life. It was just a little bit mind-blowing and completely strange to have something that had been on my computer being said out loud.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

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

For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.

Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.

I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.'

I love to be in the entertainment space, and my aim is to create new content and entertain people, whether it's in movies or on TV.