Edward Albee Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.

  Edward Albee

  Women, Home, Mean

  Lee Krasner, John Cheim, Edward Albee, Lisa Liebmann, Stephen Westfall (1991). “Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970”

• The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this is genetic, of course, but I think it is in part that they worry so for us, care so much.

  Edward Albee

  Heart, Thinking, Long

• What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before I invented the characters, before they started taking over what happened, because they are three-dimensional individuals, and I cannot tell them what to do. Once I give them their identity and their nature, they start writing the play.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Character, Play

  Interview with Linda Leseman, www.believermag.com. September, 2013.

• Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.

  Edward Albee

  Giving, Want, Ends

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

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