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Tracy Letts Quotes

Thank God we can’t tell the future. We’d never get out of bed Picture Quote #1

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don’t care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please Picture Quote #1

All women need makeup. Don’t let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton Picture Quote #1

If you feel like you’re in control of everything, and then things aren’t going well, you feel like you’re failing Picture Quote #1

After the success of ‘August,’ there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I’m from the Midwest, and that’s what we do: We go back to work Picture Quote #1

Sometimes my family thinks I’ve made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn’t all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid Picture Quote #1

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The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action Picture Quote #1

You’re thoughtful, Barbara, but you’re not open. You’re passionate, but you’re hard. You’re a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you’re a pain in the ass Picture Quote #1

Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I’m quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of ‘August’ could have done the film of ‘August.’ I don’t think any of them were particularly surprised when they didn’t wind up doing the film Picture Quote #1

Killer Joe’ was originally written in 1991 and first produced in 93 at the Next Theater’s Lab - a 40 seat black box theater in Evanston, Illinois - back when I was getting started. I was just 25 and I had been acting for awhile, but it was my first play and the one that really got me noticed, especially by Steppenwolf Picture Quote #1

When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, ‘You’re a bum and you can’t write. This stinks.’ and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they’re all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, ‘He’s a genius, he’s a genius!’ Picture Quote #1

I don’t know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good Picture Quote #1

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The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach Picture Quote #1

If you’re not entertaining, what the hell’s the point? Picture Quote #1

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul Picture Quote #1

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat Picture Quote #1

Time wounds all heals Picture Quote #1

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list Picture Quote #1

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I never know what the hell I’m writing about, I never know what the next thing I’m writing about is, I never have a plan Picture Quote #1

I don’t know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good Picture Quote #1

I’m kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent Picture Quote #1

What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out Picture Quote #1

I’m aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn’t going to be the filmed record of the play. It’s its own separate entity, and I’ve come to peace with that Picture Quote #1

Women are beautiful when they’re young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly Picture Quote #1

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Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don’t care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please Picture Quote #1

We’re all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more Picture Quote #1

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love Picture Quote #1

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Thank God we can’t tell the future. We’d never get out of bed (Tracy Letts Quotes) Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don’t care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please. (Tracy Letts Quotes) All women need makeup. Don’t let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton (Tracy Letts Quotes) If you feel like you’re in control of everything, and then things aren’t going well, you feel like you’re failing (Tracy Letts Quotes) After the success of ‘August,’ there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I’m from the Midwest, and that’s what we do: We go back to work (Tracy Letts Quotes) Sometimes my family thinks I’ve made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn’t all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid (Tracy Letts Quotes) The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action (Tracy Letts Quotes) You’re thoughtful, Barbara, but you’re not open. You’re passionate, but you’re hard. You’re a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you’re a pain in the ass. (Tracy Letts Quotes) Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I’m quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of ‘August’ could have done the film of ‘August.’ I don’t think any of them were particularly surprised when they didn’t wind up doing the film. (Tracy Letts Quotes) Killer Joe’ was originally written in 1991 and first produced in 93 at the Next Theater’s Lab - a 40 seat black box theater in Evanston, Illinois - back when I was getting started. I was just 25 and I had been acting for awhile, but it was my first play and the one that really got me noticed, especially by Steppenwolf. (Tracy Letts Quotes) When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, ‘You’re a bum and you can’t write. This stinks.’ and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they’re all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, ‘He’s a genius, he’s a genius!’ (Tracy Letts Quotes) I don’t know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good. (Tracy Letts Quotes) The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach (Tracy Letts Quotes) If you’re not entertaining, what the hell’s the point? (Tracy Letts Quotes) A certain giving up of control is good for the soul (Tracy Letts Quotes) Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat (Tracy Letts Quotes) Time wounds all heals (Tracy Letts Quotes) In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list (Tracy Letts Quotes) I never know what the hell I’m writing about, I never know what the next thing I’m writing about is, I never have a plan (Tracy Letts Quotes) I don’t know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good (Tracy Letts Quotes) I’m kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent (Tracy Letts Quotes) What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out (Tracy Letts Quotes) I’m aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn’t going to be the filmed record of the play. It’s its own separate entity, and I’ve come to peace with that (Tracy Letts Quotes) Women are beautiful when they’re young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly (Tracy Letts Quotes) Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don’t care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please (Tracy Letts Quotes) We’re all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more (Tracy Letts Quotes) My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love (Tracy Letts Quotes)