If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life. 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 successful play art 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 able theatre want 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 play character thinking 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 great time night people He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope. Edward Albee snake afraid he rope 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 hope work life funny 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 feel you sorry people Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. Edward Albee short sometimes long way 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 think you surprise funny Never marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Edward Albee marry never you money 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 late poetry important time I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts. Edward Albee full without i-am educated If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic. Edward Albee he alive today drama It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell. Edward Albee good friends hell heaven
