George C. Wolfe Quotes

All our friends - so many friends are gay or lesbian and transgender. We're just in that world. We all went through the devastating time of the AIDS crisis, and I think that galvanized us to be more activists - AIDS activists.

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

It's so self-evident that I have to live my own history, to remind people the fact that I got into radio back in the early '80s was because of AIDS and HIV. It was what motivated me - that was the topic that I felt was so important that I had to talk about it, educating young people about it.

Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance. . . . The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat.

If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.

Protests have a value in society that I don't think you can quantify.

When I started out, no one would talk to young people about HIV or AIDS. I looked around and radio looked like a powerful way to shape culture in a healthy way.

HIV's never been proven to cause AIDS. HIV ain't ever killed anybody.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.

You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?

The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.

We've always believed that popular culture and populist politics go hand in hand. It's an honor to be working with so many respected and influential artists, and we're indebted to them for having the courage to speak out at a time when our country so desperately needs change. For our 2.5 million members and far beyond, the Vote for Change tour will have a seismic cultural impact.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.

Obviously I think politics is interesting and important and educational.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?