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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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: July 4, 1965

Topics

Action Movies Way Stage Tell Visual

The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going back to Sophocles and Euripedes. I believe the only - the only - separation for being a dramatist is reading drama.

History Believe Reading Back Drama

If you come from a solid family structure, it doesn't matter what you go through in your life. You're going to be okay.

Life Family You Go Matter Okay

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

Always Actress Wanted

Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

Amanda de Cadenet

Perspective People Think Political

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Fear Day Texas Security Understand

Well, I think that we have to continue to fight for what we believe.

Fight Believe Think Well Continue

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

Path You Look Cards Nobody Follow

Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.

You Become More Outsider Things

I can't imagine taking up running.

Up Imagine Running Taking

I am the greatest marital artist in the world.

Judah Friedlander

I Am World Artist Greatest Am

We can't let Donald Trump put us at risk.

Donald Trump Risk Us Trump Put

Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it's not my joke or moment.

Moment Kiss Hockey Story Credit You

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