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 instea…

- Tracy Letts

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

- Tracy Letts

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 exper…

- Tracy Letts

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 w…

- Tracy Letts

You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't want to sound highfalutin and say you beco…

- Tracy Letts

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

- Tracy Letts

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

- Tracy Letts

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

- Tracy Letts

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

- Tracy Letts