Katori Hall

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.