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  • I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Blood Quotes , Play Quotes
  • The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Play Quotes , Stories Quotes
  • Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Children Quotes , Play Quotes
  • One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes
  • I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Play Quotes , Wife Quotes
  • You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aimee Mann Quotes , Play Quotes , Limits Quotes