Edward Albee quotes

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. (Edward Albee)
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. View quote
Edward Albee
You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are. View quote
Edward Albee
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. View quote
Edward Albee
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, [but] every character is an extension of the author's own personality. View quote
Edward Albee
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. View quote
Edward Albee
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say - it leaves me something to do. View quote
Edward Albee
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. View quote
Edward Albee
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. View quote
Edward Albee
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. View quote
Edward Albee
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. (Edward Albee)
If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic. View quote
Edward Albee
I created myself, and I'll attack anybody I feel like. View quote
Edward Albee
The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself. View quote
Edward Albee
What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy. View quote
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A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. View quote
Edward Albee
When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions - that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride. That's all. View quote
Edward Albee
I write to find out what I'm talking about. View quote
Edward Albee
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen. View quote
Edward Albee
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. View quote
Edward Albee
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive? (Edward Albee)
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have. View quote
Edward Albee
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. View quote
Edward Albee
I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up? View quote
Edward Albee
Q: Do you find quite a difference between the audience at large and the critics as a group? A: Well, one is a group of human beings, one is not. View quote
Edward Albee