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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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Washington
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
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I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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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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The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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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.
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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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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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The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
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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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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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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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I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
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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.
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When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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