Quotes About Expression

I'd love to do some new plays.

Plays have been made of my comics.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I think lingerie plays a big part in how you carry yourself.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

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

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.