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Richard Foreman

"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play."

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"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play."

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"I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit."

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"We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors."

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"But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through."

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"There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks."

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"I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day."

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"Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day."

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"There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day."

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"I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda."

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"We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day."

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"All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language."
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"There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life."
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"You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army."
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"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
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"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up."
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"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
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"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale."
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