Quotes by Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

Asking

Mind

People

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn’t a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

Needs

Play

Writing

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

Christmas Eve

Genius

Mother

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Dream

Encouraging

Graduation

I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.

Assertive

Becoming

Talk To Me

I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

Intelligent

Successful

Writing

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them. Then at some point, it’s time to get them out of the house. You can only live with someone like Dr. Georgeous Teitelbaum from THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG for so long, and then it’s time for her to go. But it is very like having the company of these people and trying to craft them in some way into a story.

Character

Long

Writing

I’m not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I’m thirty, I’ll be incredible.

Expectations

Imagination

Lying

I’m perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.

Curious

Interesting

Success

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There’s nothing wrong with being alone.

Being Alone

Loneliness

Lonely

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Art

Asking

Assertive

Bags

Becoming

Being Alone

Causes

Character

Christmas Eve

Comedy

Commitment

Curious

Desire

Dream

Encouraging

Expectations

Genius

Graduation

Hate

Humor

Imagination

Intelligent

Interesting

Live Life

Loneliness

Lonely

Long

Lucky

Lying

Mind

Mother

Needs

Pain

Paper

People

Plans

Play

Pride

Real

Respect

Success

Successful

Taken

Talk To Me

Technology

Teenager

Thinking

Voice

Women

Writing

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Quotes by Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn’t a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.

I’m not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I’m thirty, I’ll be incredible.

I’m perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There’s nothing wrong with being alone.

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