"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."

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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

Ian McEwan, British Author

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"I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience."

Jerry Herman, American Composer

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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."

Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress

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"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."

Laura San Giacomo, American Actress

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"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."

Peter Gallagher, American Actor

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"I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there."

Hal Price, American Actor

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"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."

Sherry Stringfield, American Actress

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"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."

Kim Cattrall, English Actress

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"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."

Vincent D'Onofrio, American Actor

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"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."

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"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."

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"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."

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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."

"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

"I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience."

"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."

"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."

"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."

"I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there."

"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."

"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."

"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."

Explore more quotes by Christopher Durang

"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."

"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."

"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."

"My parents didn't really know one another."

"When my parents separated, I was very grateful."

"Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that."

"I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius."

"Laughter can bring a new perspective."

"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."