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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Theatrical Director
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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
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A lot of people are confused by hello. A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.
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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
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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.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
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When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.
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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.
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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One must let the play happen to one one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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