Quotes by John Guare - Page 2

To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.
John Guare / Playwright
Coats
College
Love You
Theater
Checking
Stay
Washington
Fifties
Main
National
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I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.
John Guare / Playwright
Mean
Play
Thinking
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Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
John Guare / Playwright
Ballet
Body
Listening
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I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing them how valuable they were. Because they're ready to give it up and go into teaching or television.
John Guare / Playwright
Valuable
Drama School
Showing
Task
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The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.
John Guare / Playwright
Ballet
Extraordinary
Force
Wonder
Bodies
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The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
John Guare / Playwright
New York
Ballet
Body
Human Body
New York City
Remarkable
City
Respond
New York City Ballet
Possibilities
Realm
York
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Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few people know the history of this country and how we came into being. That's the part that just amazed me.
John Guare / Playwright
America
Country
Patriotic
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You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a small town filled with noble creatures who have to get out there and make it brand new every night. When a production works, it's unlike any other joy in the world.
John Guare / Playwright
Happy
Brand New
Creatures
Every Night
Feels
Filled
Joy
Night
Noble
Playwright
Small Town
Affects
World Joy People
Backstage
Brand
Works
Run
Small
Unlike
Production
Mayor
Onstage
Town
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The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.
John Guare / Playwright
Imagination
Trying
Voice
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Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at home in a theater. I loved being part of an audience. All the rules - the audience has to see the play on a certain date at a certain time in a certain place in a certain seat.
John Guare / Playwright
Birthday
Celebration
Good Grades
Grades
Theater
Rules
Meant
Date
Seat
Plays
Reward
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I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger.
John Guare / Playwright
Jobs
Broadway
Fixing
Garbage
Graduate School
Plumbing
School
Summer
Yelling
Try
Backstage
Doing
Dressing
Dressing Room
Still
Graduate
Haven
Her
Herbert
Leg
Marshall
Room
Plays
Town
Route
Wooden
Worked
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What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.
John Guare / Playwright
Drama
Hate
Real
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I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell what's real in our lives? How do we see things as they are? What is my role in life? If the Signature hadn't forced the issue by devoting its season to my plays, I could at least believe I had changed. Really, they're all the same! What is SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION but THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES with money?
John Guare / Playwright
Artist
Believe
Real
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I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.
John Guare / Playwright
Names
People
Venice
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New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.
John Guare / Playwright
Men
Cities
Color
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