Edward Albee Quotes
"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
- Edward Albee
(Related: American)
"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Humor, Sense)
"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Fault, Play)
"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Drama, Today)
"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Truth, Fact, Fiction, Play)
"Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Time, Democracy, End, Want)
"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
(Related: Truth, Fact, Reality, Will, Writer, Writers)
"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Order)
"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Audiences, Difference)
"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it."
- Edward Albee
"What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement."
- Edward Albee
(Related: People, Fantasy, Reality, Theater, Want)
"You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Swine)
"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
(Related: People, Character, Personality)
"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Mind, Play, Sense, Will)
"I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you."
- Edward Albee
(Related: Divorce)