Colin Donnell Quotes

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was 'Noises Off,' but now that I've seen 'The Liar,' I'm not so sure.

Sam Shepard is a brilliant writer.

Tennessee Williams moves my soul.

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

I'd love to do some new plays.

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

I'm a drama nerd.

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

I'm a drama guy.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.