Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Kress

The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'

Bob Dylan

I'm not a playwright.

David Henry Hwang

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

Sarah Ruhl

Any woman who is a playwright is already a feminist.

Brian McDermott

Being a playwright is lot of work. There are a lot more venues around here this year than years ago.

Jesse Eisenberg

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

Bruce Sevy

I do think it is a service to the playwright and that's a service to the theater indirectly.

Cherry Jones

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

Sam Shepard

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

Denis Leary

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Aaron Tveit

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

Geisha Williams

We're in the tough stage of the restoration.

Bob Dylan

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

Bridgit Mendler

I definitely get stage fright.

Arthur Ashe

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me