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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Edward Albee
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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
Edward Albee
Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
Edward Albee
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
Edward Albee
Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. But there is a fine line to be drawn between pointing up something or distorting it.
Edward Albee
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
Edward Albee
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
Edward Albee
Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
Edward Albee
Im not suggesting that the play is without fault all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
Edward Albee
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
Edward Albee
Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
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Every monster was a man first.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee
I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
Edward Albee
First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
Edward Albee
When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
Edward Albee
The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
Edward Albee
The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
Edward Albee
The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
Edward Albee
