Ellen McLaughlin Quotes & Sayings
12 most famous Ellen McLaughlin quotes and sayings (playwright). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.”
“I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.”
“Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.”
“The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.”
“When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.”
“I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.”
“In 'Angels in America,' I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.”
“The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.”
“I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter.”
“I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.”
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