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- Add the new quote to the next available subpage, using the layout format from the link above.
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Quote list
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A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Edward Albee, New York Times interview, 1966
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, darling. Be an audience.
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Tallulah Bankhead, 1952
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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
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Elbert Hubbard, from Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers, 1906
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The secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and whenever you can, cut.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Often as he sneered at Plato, Aristotle never called him a playwright.
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Max Beerbohm
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The playwright of today likes to believe that he is throwing light upon his time, when his time is actually throwing light upon him.
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James Thurber
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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George Bernard Shaw
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The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
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Will Rogers
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When they have a success, the producers think they are brilliant, but when they have a failure, they think the public are fools.
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Sacha Guitry
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A playwright is a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
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August Strindberg
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
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Peter Ustinov, Christian Science Monitor, 1962
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As far as my work is concerned [the ideal dramatic criticism is] unqualified appreciation.
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Oscar Wilde, St James's Gazette interview, 1895
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Musicals - a series of catastrophes ending with a floor show.
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Oscar Levant
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.
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Ralph Richardson
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Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.
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Spencer Tracy
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it is so accidental. It's so much like life.
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Arthur Miller
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Whoever condemns the theater is an enemy of his country.
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Voltaire