Playwright Quotes

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs.
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
A play is a passion.
All experience helps when you write.
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.
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