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No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue.
The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.
I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.
I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.
You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.
First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater.
You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.
You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.
We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.
When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand.
Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.