The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

Don’t even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence.

I quickly, swiftly, reach in, pluck out, and peer into the mirror. ‘I am still here.’ I am in the glass, in this moment. After this moment, I may not be here; I may be...

My background is on the stage, so when I’d write movies, they’d be a lot like plays.

There were a lot of plays to be made and we didn’t make them.

Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd tune his merry note,Unto the sweet bird’s throat;Come hither, come hither, come hither.Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather.

In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it’s Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it’s crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors....

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Why won’t you help me? You have to able to manage on your own.

They’re a top 10 team. They made plays. It was important for me to show poise and be ready to make plays when we got the ball back.

I’m really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

So always avoid banality. That is, avoid illustrating the author’s words and remarks. If you want to create a true masterpiece you must always avoid beautiful lies: the truths on the calender under each date...

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard,...

Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.

That’s what he can do when he wants to. When he plays like he did tonight, we’re tough.

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

Because I’d done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that’s what I was doing!

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

Try to be the best; try never to be the worst! Live and play the role honey plays on your tongue in the lives of people; never do the job that pepper does on your...

Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’

I put it on my shoulders at the end. I tried to make some plays. I went through a tough stretch but my teammates gave me confidence. … At the end I was in a...

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin’d,Man walks at large, a Pris’ner of the Mind

My plays aren’t stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

Play needs direction as well as work.

DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It’s a big want.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn’t very into films.

I’m always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I’ll make the time to do it.

We ran some plays for him, and he made some tough shots in traffic.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from...

MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. They will forget.VERSHININ. Yes. They will forget. That is our fate, you can’t do anything about it. The...

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several...

We threw a lot of misdirection plays in there at them, a lot of reverses and stuff like that. Being new to the district, they weren’t really used to the single-wing offense. I think that...

You always prefer to be in on more plays,

I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

GUIL: It [Hamlet’s madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints...

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities.

I make impact plays. I make game-changing plays.

And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the...