Richard LaGravenese Quotes

I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

As far as theater goes, Sarah DeLappe's 'The Wolves' is one of my favorite things I've ever seen.

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

A play is a passion.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

Acting is very immediate.

I really hope that I can continue to do classical theatre - it's something I am really passionate about and I'd love to explore.

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.