Quote

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

Edward Albee

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
Author
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
University Teacher
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee
Acting
Actors
Use
Ever
Going
Always
Anybody

More quotes by Edward Albee

Image
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.
Edward Albee
Image
A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
Edward Albee
Image
That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
Edward Albee
Image
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
Edward Albee
Image
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.
Edward Albee
Image
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.
Edward Albee
Image
Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.
Edward Albee
Image
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.
Edward Albee
Image
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.
Edward Albee
Image
The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
Edward Albee
Image
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
Edward Albee
Image
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?
Edward Albee
Image
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.
Edward Albee
Image
When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
Edward Albee
Image
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
Edward Albee
Image
In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
Edward Albee
Image
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'
Edward Albee
Image
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.
Edward Albee
Image
I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
Edward Albee
Image
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.
Edward Albee