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John Guare Inspirational Quotes (34)
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The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
John Guare
Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.
John Guare
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
John Guare
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.
John Guare
I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.
John Guare
Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.
John Guare
I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.
John Guare
James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.
John Guare
Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
John Guare
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.
John Guare
Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.
John Guare
Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic! But how few people know the history of this country and how we came into being. That's the part that just amazed me.
John Guare
You don't push the button that says Now I will write something that resonates in time. You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
John Guare
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
John Guare
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am.
John Guare
What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do
John Guare
You can't be a sort of pioneer.
John Guare
The great risk is always saying, how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?
John Guare
The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.
John Guare
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
John Guare
All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
John Guare
1975 is as much a historical document as 1803.
John Guare
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
John Guare
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.
John Guare
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