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Quote list

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A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth. — Edward Albee, New York Times interview, 1966

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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, darling. Be an audience. — Tallulah Bankhead, 1952

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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. — Elbert Hubbard, from Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers, 1906

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The secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and whenever you can, cut. — W. Somerset Maugham

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Often as he sneered at Plato, Aristotle never called him a playwright. — Max Beerbohm

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The playwright of today likes to believe that he is throwing light upon his time, when his time is actually throwing light upon him. — James Thurber

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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. — George Bernard Shaw

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The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich. — Will Rogers

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When they have a success, the producers think they are brilliant, but when they have a failure, they think the public are fools. — Sacha Guitry

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A playwright is a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form. — August Strindberg

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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. — Peter Ustinov, Christian Science Monitor, 1962

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As far as my work is concerned [the ideal dramatic criticism is] unqualified appreciation. — Oscar Wilde, St James's Gazette interview, 1895

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Musicals - a series of catastrophes ending with a floor show. — Oscar Levant

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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing. — Ralph Richardson

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Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture. — Spencer Tracy

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Acting is standing up naked and turning around slowly. — Rosalind Russell

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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it is so accidental. It's so much like life. — Arthur Miller

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The business of the dramatist is to keep out of sight and let nothing appear but his characters. — Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

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All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players / They have their exits and their entrances / And one man in his time plays many parts ... — William Shakespeare, "All the world's a stage", As You Like It

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Whoever condemns the theater is an enemy of his country. — Voltaire