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

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...

Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and...

My only wish is to be buried with my books.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

A Chinaman of the T’ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively...

Oh, come on! Nobody’s favorite color is BROWN!

DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc and the Thunder was a Noise from a Drum or a Pan.VANNBRUGGHE. (Aside) What a Child...

We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds...

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

We didn’t make enough plays. That’s been the scenario of our season.

You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don’t have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It’s the hardest thing.

I had to start making plays that he makes. He makes plays for everybody and I tried to do that tonight.

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

Oh, come off it, I’ve only directed three plays for the RSC.

Books have power to bring you glory or doom, it all depends on perception.

Shaw’s plays are the price we pay for Shaw’s prefaces.

When I was ten all I knew was that I hated the weird words used to describe whatever it was that was wrong with my brother—to this day I think it all happened because he...

I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag’s full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I’d like...

We’ve got two plays,

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

I’d love to do some new plays.

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

To be or not to be tethered to the sordid, sickly, stinking, sappy apron strings of Hollywood and its endless fondness for fu**ing your sh** up. If Shakespeare were alive today, I bet he’d write...

I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.

Tell me something wonderful,” he said to Dane. “Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep.””You’re always writing one of your plays on the phone,” said Dane.”I said, something...