A Quote by Matthew Bourne

I love Tennessee Williams; as a playwright, he's so poetic.

Matthew Bourne

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Love Playwright Poetic Tennessee Williams

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Matthew Bourne
English - Dancer
Born: January 13, 1960

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

John Guare

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

John Guare

I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces.

Richard Hatch

It's just that the characters are speaking their mind. As opposed to it just being an expression, they're actually saying what's on their mind, and that's something that Tennessee Williams is really famous for. Shakespeare does that and Tennessee Williams does that. You crave that, when you're an actor, for sure.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

Kiran Desai

I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.

Cobie Smulders

Tennessee Williams moves my soul.

Zawe Ashton

To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.

William Jay Smith

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

St. Vincent

American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that.

Emilia Clarke

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

Gloria Swanson

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

John Guare

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams. Sexy plays. [For musicians] there are so many that it's hard just to say one. Certain things, like the first time you hear A Love Supreme, you're floored. It takes whatever you were listening to and blows a hole in it.

Annie E. Clark

Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee.

J. B. Smoove

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.