40 Quotes by Christopher Durang

I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker. I think one of the reasons BEYOND THERAPY has legs - it's been very successful for me around the country - is because it's a friendly play, rather sunny.

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

My parents didn’t really know one another.

I didn’t have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

If everyone took anti-depressants, Chekhov would have nothing to write about.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don’t think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

So many American plays are about family. When you’re in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn’t realize it myself.

On the one hand, I’m grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.