Lanford Quotes & Sayings

At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone ... Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one ... You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation. — Lanford Wilson

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences. — Brad Dourif

Well, who wants to die in bed?" "You did, you always said. Of extreme old age, in bed, with somebody's wife." "Mine, by preference," Cazaril — Lois McMaster Bujold

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce. — Lanford Wilson

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do. — Lanford Wilson

There before me, staring back from bottomless blackness, was I without my self. On all fours, I stared into my eyes. I came closer, and we kissed. Who knows me best? I am only water. — Pirate Lanford

I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers. — Lanford Wilson

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers. — Dave Ramsey

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11. — Lanford Wilson

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars. — Jesse Ventura

But no one knows anything about you, and Washington keeps telling everyone you are what you say you are. That's impossible. No one here is what they say they are. — Pirate Lanford

We who live in the civilized world are accustomed to a background roar that never goes away. It is the pounding of our machinery in the chest of the city, and it is the incessant blood of traffic rushing through the streets.
Here the silence never goes away. It is the foundation of all sound. One can hear into the jungle through the silence much farther than one can see into it through the trees. — Pirate Lanford

I take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes. — Joan Chen

The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love. — Tom Hiddleston

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened. — Lanford Wilson

they don't serve champagne at pity parties — Cara Alwill Leyba

All we really need is this technique of Transcendental Meditation, which allows any human being to easily and effortlessly transcend. When you get this technique of Transcendental Meditation, stay regular in your meditation twice a day and you will begin to rapidly unfold your full potential as a human being and see life get better and better and better. — David Lynch

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. — Isaiah Berlin

If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again. — Lanford Wilson

Dead at twenty. To die here on a strange planet I'd never seen and without any friends or family. Except for an alien named Garran. — Kalli Lanford

My showmanship only comes out when I hold the violin - with Lady Tin-Yin in my arms, I don't care who watches. A peace comes over me, something I call my violin calm. — Stacey Lee

I randomly took an acting class in undergrad and was reading a monologue from 'Lemon Sky' by Lanford Wilson, and I felt such a connection to the material and then to the audience as I was doing it. This electric current ran through the author, me and the audience, and I felt connected in a way that rarely happens. I was hooked. — Conrad Ricamora