Quote

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

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
Talking
Become
Able
Way
Snap
People
Snaps
Deaf
Hear
Talk

More quotes by Edward Albee

Image
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.
Edward Albee
Image
I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
Edward Albee
Image
You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
Edward Albee
Image
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
Edward Albee
Image
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.
Edward Albee
Image
First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
Edward Albee
Image
Progress is a set of assumptions.
Edward Albee
Image
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
Edward Albee
Image
A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.
Edward Albee
Image
You want to dance with me, angel tits?
Edward Albee
Image
Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
Edward Albee
Image
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Edward Albee
Image
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
Edward Albee
Image
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
Edward Albee
Image
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
Edward Albee
Image
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
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
The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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
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.
Edward Albee