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Stephen Karam

Because I didn’t go to graduate school or have mentorship out of college, meeting other playwrights and developing those friendships as a result of being a ‘grown up’ playwright – that’s become an essential community for me. My contemporaries are all my mentors whether they know it or not.

– Stephen Karam

Stella Adler

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

– Stella Adler

Sebastian Stan

I love the ’50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights.

– Sebastian Stan

Sarah Kane

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they’re crap.

– Sarah Kane

Sam Claflin

In England, when we’re at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time – you can’t have second or third takes when you’re in front of a live audience, unlike in film.

– Sam Claflin

Peter Ustinov

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

– Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today’s playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

– Peter Ustinov

Peter Shaffer

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

– Peter Shaffer

Pearl Cleage

I’m not one of those playwrights who says, ‘Show up, hit your marks, and don’t talk to me!’ I always want to hear from the other artists involved, whether it’s the director, the lighting tech, or the actors.

– Pearl Cleage

Patti LuPone

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That’s all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright’s intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

– Patti LuPone

Orlando Bloom

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

– Orlando Bloom

Nelson Algren

The American middle class’s faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.

– Nelson Algren

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