I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.


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He liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he did. But as for tal...
AUGUST STRINDBERG
I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human...
AUGUST WILSON
I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and ...
AUGUST KROGH
[Wilson may never see the marquee or sit in the theater that carries his name. Last month, in an int...
AUGUST WILSON
Writing has definitely been a refuge for me, something I needed to do in order to survive.
AUGUST WILSON
I feel free, man,
AUGUST WILSON
The fact that he was a self-made man, that he was a lieutenant in the army and became the emperor, I...
AUGUST WILSON
[Reviewing the play's Broadway premiere for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that in] Ma Rainey,...
AUGUST WILSON
I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.
AUGUST WILSON
I'm glad I finished the cycle [of plays],
AUGUST WILSON
I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready.
AUGUST WILSON
I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up!
AUGUST WILSON
I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
AUGUST WILSON
Many is the time I looked at my daddy and seen him staring off at his hands. I got a little older I ...
AUGUST WILSON
it was as far away from New York as I could get.
AUGUST WILSON
[With the cycle done and] Radio Golf ... a war between coffin makers and undertakers, Death taking a...
AUGUST WILSON
He paused. ''But what if they say they're going to cut off the heads of my children? If it's just me...
AUGUST WILSON
The Piano Lesson.
AUGUST WILSON
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I...
AUGUST WILSON
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the bl...
AUGUST WILSON
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a glob...
AUGUST WILSON
I think that if I'm at home sitting doing the rewrite, I'm going to write something different than i...
AUGUST WILSON
You can only close if you opened.
AUGUST WILSON
American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have...
AUGUST WILSON
I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year.
AUGUST WILSON
Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything righ...
AUGUST WILSON
Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and a...
AUGUST WILSON
There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
AUGUST SANDER
The mob could begin to rule in a few days if these people do not get more food and water. I think it...
AUGUST PILLSBURY
I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER
The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the poi...
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER
The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.
AUGUST HECKSCHER
We always think about the rights of the terrorists. But if there is an attack that you could have pr...
AUGUST HANNING
As new developments they present new dangers.
AUGUST HANNING
My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that ...
AUGUST WILSON
I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.
J.M. AUGUST
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ...
AUGUST WILSON
The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained wh...
AUGUST KROGH
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is e...
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Walk in there. Tip my hat. Lay my money down on the table. Get my deed and walk on out. This time I ...
AUGUST WILSON
Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
AUGUST KROGH
During my stay in London I resided for a considerable time in Clapham Road in the neighbourhood of C...
AUGUST KEKULé
You have this novel idea of the world, like it’s made up of ladder hunting and test taking and fra...
J.M. AUGUST
Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sur...
AUGUST WILSON
Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth.
AUGUST KEKULé
I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch ...
AUGUST WILSON
Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.
AUGUST WILSON
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced b...
AUGUST KROGH