Israel Horovitz Quotes

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

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

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.

I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

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

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

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.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.