Edward Albee Quotes - Page 3

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• Every monster was a man first.

  Edward Albee

  Men, Monsters, Firsts

  Edward Albee (1965). “Tiny Alice”, p.64, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

  Edward Albee

  Reality, People, Want

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• A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

  Edward Albee

  Surprise, Interest, Surprise Me

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Play, Findings

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• The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

  Edward Albee

  Reviews, Ifs, Only Time

  "Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002: A Relevant and Irreverent Record". Book by Steven Suskin, 2003.

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• The characters' lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you've killed them off.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Play, Finals

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

  Edward Albee

  Schizophrenic, Controlled

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• Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

  Edward Albee

  Thinking

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• I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

  Edward Albee

  Kindness, Independent, Cruelty

  1958 The Zoo Story.

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• The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

  Edward Albee

  Lonely, Matter, Creation

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.56, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

  Edward Albee

  Fashion, Writing, Years

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• Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, People, Age

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.90, Da Capo Press

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• Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

  Edward Albee

  Acceptance, Rejection, Matter

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

  Edward Albee

  Stage, Playwriting, Hanging Out

  "Shoptalk: Conversations About Theater and Film with Twelve Writers, One Producer - and Tennessee Williams' Mother by Dennis Brown". Book by Dennis Brown, 1992.

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• Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Character, People

  The New York Times, September 18, 1966.

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• American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

  Edward Albee

  Inspirational, Education, Half

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

  Edward Albee

  Reality, Differences, Interesting

  Edward Albee (2007). “Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business”, p.69, The Overlook Press

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• First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

  Edward Albee

  Dog, Kindness, Firsts

  Edward Albee (2011). “At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story”, p.64, The Overlook Press

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• There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

  Edward Albee

  Chaos, Clarity, Civility

  Edward Albee (2004). “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?: Broadway Edition”, p.64, The Overlook Press

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• When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ... either they turn to a contemplation of the past ... or they set about to ... alter the future. And when you want to change something ... YOU BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

  Edward Albee

  Change, Past, Two

  EDWARD ALBEE (1962). “WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?”

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• Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

  Edward Albee

  Running, Responsibility, Errors

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.116, Da Capo Press

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• Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

  Edward Albee

  Creative, Black, Magic

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.165, Da Capo Press

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• I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

  Edward Albee

  Attention, Pay, Gains

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

  Edward Albee

  Mother, Years, Play

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• I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Play, Events

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. September 2013.

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