69 Quotes by Tracy Letts

I don’t know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

If you feel like you’re in control of everything, and then things aren’t going well, you feel like you’re failing.

After the success of ‘August,’ there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I’m from the Midwest, and that’s what we do: We go back to work.

I never know what the hell I’m writing about, I never know what the next thing I’m writing about is, I never have a plan.

Sometimes my family thinks I’ve made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn’t all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.

My point is, it’s not cut and dried, black and white, good and bad. It lives where everything lives: somewhere in the middle. Where everything lives, where all the rest of us live, everyone but you.

You ever hear of Killer Joe Cooper?

You’re thoughtful, Barbara, but you’re not open. You’re passionate, but you’re hard. You’re a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you’re a pain in the ass.

Something has been said for sobriety but very little.