Edward Albee Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

15 Famous Quotes by Edward Albee
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“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.”
Humor Quotes
Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (act I)
“The gods too are fond of a joke.”
Humor Quotes
Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (act I)
“A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”
Fiction Quotes
“The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.”
Creativity Quotes
“I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.”
Miscellaneous Quotes