As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced. Edward Albee More Quotes by Edward Albee More Quotes From Edward Albee If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre]. Edward Albee successfulplayart Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit. Edward Albee abletheatrewant There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it. Edward Albee playcharacterthinking Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. Edward Albee Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time. Edward Albee greattimenightpeople He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope. Edward Albee snakeafraidherope Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly. Edward Albee hopeworklifefunny That's all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that's all that's important; a sense of dignity. And it doesn't matter if you don't care or not, either. You got to have a sense of dignity, even if you don't care, 'cause, if you don't have that, civilization's doomed. Edward Albee feelyousorrypeople Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. Edward Albee shortsometimeslongway The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, 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. Edward Albee thinkyousurprisefunny Never marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Edward Albee marryneveryoumoney My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. Edward Albee latepoetryimportanttime I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts. Edward Albee fullwithouti-ameducated If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic. Edward Albee healivetodaydrama It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell. Edward Albee goodfriendshellheaven
