Dramatist Quotes

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

When every one is somebody, Then no one's anybody!

I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.