You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.
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
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 don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good. - Tracy Letts
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.
A certain giving up of control is good for the soul. - Tracy Letts
A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.
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
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…
I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on. - Tracy Letts
I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.
If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point? - Tracy Letts
If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?
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
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…
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. - Tracy Letts
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
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
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…
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