David Rabe Quotes

#1. I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.

Richard Schiff

#2. We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.

Jessi Kirby

#3. Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.

Octavio Paz

#4. Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

David Rabe

#5. Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing.

David Rabe

#6. I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams.

David Rabe

#7. How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have been operated upon to make them learn acceptable ways of participating as members of "the group."

Joel Henry Hildebrand

#8. In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.

Laurie Graham

#9. I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.

David Rabe

#10. You have to know that there actually is a transcendental something, if you are going to free anybody from anything - if there is no beyond-the-given, there is no freedom from the given, and liberation is futile.

Ken Wilber

#11. Murderers don't even know that murder happens.

David Rabe

#12. Eddie: You don't have any feelings at all.
Phil: I don't have your feelings, Eddie; that's all. I have my own, they get me by.

David Rabe

#13. There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.

David Rabe

#14. I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

David Rabe

#15. Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy. I think those that are in it for a genuine love of comedy find each other within the circuit and become friends.

Johnny Vegas

#16. where is here, when is now??

D.J. MacHale

#17. Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

Cory Doctorow

#18. Luke James has this mystique about him that's not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He's got a whole D'Angelo feel to him as well.

Estelle

#19. Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one thing, but something else is actually orchestrating their lives.

David Rabe

#20. My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

David Rabe

#21. At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.

Dan Jenkins

#22. Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

Jim Elliot

#23. I do not think I was afraid. There must be substance to breed fear, and I was hollow.

Tanith Lee