List of Terrence McNally Quotes

We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally
Total Quotes 13
I've had wonderful collaborators. they're very different, just as actors are. working on a show with nathan lane is different from working on a show with chita rivera. it keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.
Different Actors Toes
In those days, you had to like one or the other. you couldn't like sutherland and callas.
Callas
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. the minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. and audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.
Writing Thinking People
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. all good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. start your own theater.
Mom People Kind
Work with good directors. without them your play is doomed. at the time of my first play, i thought a good director was someone who liked my play. i was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . work with good actors. a good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. a good actor makes rewrites easy. a good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.
Writing Play Way
I like to surprise myself. i've always been attracted to projects where i don't know how they're going to turn out.
Surprise Projects Turns
I'm of the school 'write what you know.' you can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
Writing Heart School
There are so many rules about play writing. i'd have a nervous breakdown if i followed them.
Writing Play Nervous
Cheating is not the american way. it is small, while we are large. it is cheap, while we are richly endowed. it is destructive, while we are creative. it is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. it sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.
Cheating Responsibility Creative
Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. but it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. in a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.
Technology Solitude Promise
I may think i have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but i don't - life is a blessing.
Blessing Thinking Rights
Write plays that matter. raise the stakes. shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. it's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. we do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. if a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.
Writing Heart Play
  • Born: November 3, 1938
  • Occupation: Playwright
    • Embed this Author
    Copy this HTML code to link to Terrence McNally's quotes on your blog.
    HTML CODE

    Trending Author

    Peter Abrahams
    Peter Abrahams
    Daniel Goleman
    Daniel Goleman
    Odette Annable
    Odette Annable
    Monica Bellucci
    Monica Bellucci
    Ashley Montagu
    Ashley Montagu
    Devon Sawa
    Devon Sawa
    Category
    Information
    Inspirational
    Philosophy
    Personal Growth
    Happiness & Joy
    Life Lessons
    Success & Business
    Motivation