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If you're willing to fail int...

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

The act of writing is an act ...

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

The arts are the only things ...

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

A lot interests me - but noth...

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

A playwright has a responsibi...

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

I am sick of the disparity be...

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

Anything you put in a play --...

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.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

In a democracy you cannot sto...

In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

There are only two things to ...

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

A play is fiction and fiction...

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

Very few people who met my ad...

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

Edward Albee 139 quotes

The avant-garde theater is fu...

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -- putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply -- if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. I think you may no longer be content with plays that you can't remember halfway down the block.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

You find very few critics who...

You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. I mean, nobody wants to put them out of a job and a good critic is not necessarily a dead critic. It's just that people take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent of stupid -- but most people don't take the trouble.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

I stopped acting when I was a...

I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten years. I don't know. I suspect I'm still a reasonably good actor, but I don't really know that I want to get on the stage again ... and having to say all those boring words by me over and over again ... I don't know if I want to do that. Also, I like a certain amount of freedom of movement, and if you're acting, you're stuck in one place for a long time. Having said that, I will probably be onstage next fall.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

I think I was probably wonder...

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

You're alive only once, as fa...

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

Edward Albee 139 quotes

A lot of people are confused ...

A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

When a critic sets himself up...

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

You may dislike the intention...

You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

When you write a play, you ma...

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.

Edward Albee 139 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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