The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.
Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.
We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.
I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,' or 'I don't think the kind of people you write about are the ones our audience wants to see'. . . Up and coming young black female writers are still struggling to have their voices heard and have their plays produced.
Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.
Serendipity always rewards the prepared.
My job is to score goals.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.