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There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

Edward Albee

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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Screenwriter
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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, what they can live with, and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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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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To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.
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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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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Every monster was a man first.
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Art should never try to be popular.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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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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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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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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I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.
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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.
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If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.
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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.
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