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

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...

You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.

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.