A Quote by Zawe Ashton

Tennessee Williams moves my soul.

Zawe Ashton

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Zawe Ashton
English - Actress
Born: July 21, 1984

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 want to do a Tennessee Williams play.

Cobie Smulders

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

Matthew Bourne

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

St. Vincent

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

John Guare

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

John Guare

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

Gloria Swanson

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

John Guare

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

J. B. Smoove

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

Kiran Desai

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.

Katy Mixon

Patsy Ferran in Tennessee Williams' 'Summer and Smoke'-I thought that was just one of the most phenomenal performances I've seen from a young woman.

Zawe Ashton

Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.

Rosemary Daniell

I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'

Ruth Rendell

You hear people say, 'We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.' It's full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake!