69 Quotes by Tracy Letts

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and experience things both mundane and tragic. And people don't -- like me right now -- people aren't necessarily the most eloquent when trying to express their emotions. I guess I feel as a playwright that those people deserve a voice, too, a voice that isn't so articulate that they themselves can no longer identify with it.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Thank God we can’t tell the future. We’d never get out of bed.

We’re all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

All women need makeup. Don’t let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

I said to my wife just the other day, I was actually taking some time to consider all the blessings in my life and that things are really good. I said, you would have to be a real churl to complain about the life I’m living right now. Everything’s going great. I’m having a good time.

You know, this country was always pretty much a whorehouse, but at least it used to have some promise. Now it’s just a shithole.

By night within that ancient house Immense, black, damned, anonymous.