94 Quotes by Theresa Rebeck

I remember when I was at Brandeis, Geoffrey Wolff, he was a great fiction-writing teacher. He was the writer-in-residence, and for those of us who wanted to be writers, you were so excited to be in the same hallway as him.

It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly.

I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud.

We have this powerful ideological basis to the country that I don't think any other country in the world quite can brag about. It's a very complicated nation, and it's very fertile.

Why is being a female having an agenda any more than being a misogynist - which David Mamet most certainly is?

I let action rise out of character, really.

We were told that hard work and talent and character would get you somewhere. At school, we learned it was important to share. On Arbor Day, we all planted trees.

I think it's straight men who are oblivious to goodness or badness to dates. That's probably unfair. Maybe they just don't complain as much.

When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion.