22 Quotes by Annie Baker

This isn’t like a job we have while we go to college. This is what we like — feed ourselves with.

But the truth is... I mean... I haven't said this. But... I think the problem is not my father so much as my fear of being my father. Like if I run away too hard from him I will become something else that is also problematic.

Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again? And you'll feel like what happened before wasn't real and what's happening now is actually... (she trails off)

Lauren: Hey. Um. This is kind of a weird - but do you ever wonder how many times your life is gonna end?A pause.Schultz: Uh... I'm not sure I know what / you--Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again? And you'll feel like what happened before wasn't real and what's happening now is actually... (she trails off)

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.