Top 26 Christopher Durang Quotes
#2. I write intuitively, and with most of my plays, I don't know what is always going to happen. This means I can sometimes go off on a wrong tangent, and with luck then rewrite it in a better direction. But it means I sometimes surprise myself as I'm going along.
Christopher Durang
#3. When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.
Asghar Farhadi
#5. I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.
Christopher Durang
#6. As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.
Matisyahu
#7. Unless you go through all the genuine angers you feel, both justified and unjustified, the feelings of love that you have will not have any legitimate base and will be at least partially false. Plus, eventually you will go crazy.
Christopher Durang
#9. Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.
Christopher Durang
#10. So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.
Christopher Durang
#11. To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.
Mason Cooley
#12. Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.
Christopher Durang
#14. There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.
William Scott
#15. I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker. I think one of the reasons BEYOND THERAPY has legs - it's been very successful for me around the country - is because it's a friendly play, rather sunny.
Christopher Durang
#16. When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.
Robin Jones Gunn
#17. My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.
Christopher Durang
#18. I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.
Christopher Durang
#19. Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.
Christopher Durang
#20. Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
Christopher Durang
#21. Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.
Mindy Kaling
#24. The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things,
John Medina
#25. It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who died on Friday. If you did, you went to hell, . That way, Hitler would be in hell alongside someone who ate meat on Friday. I thought there was no justice there.
Christopher Durang
#26. My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.
Christopher Durang
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