’30 Minutes or Less’ (Dwayne)
“I remember the summer after my mother passed was the first year they had the Monopoly game at McDonald’s.”
‘Kill the Messenger’ (Webb)
“You know, my first story was about a dog that shoulda died but wouldn’t. I was twenty-two.”
‘Kill the Messenger’ (Weil)
“I was you once, Gary. I started down this road, though nowhere near as far as you are. They tried to kill me”
‘Kill the Messenger’ (Meneses)
“A five iron. It is perfectly designed to pull off any shot, if you use it properly. A tool that can carve its way through any shot necessary.”
‘Reasons to be Pretty’ (Carly)
“I’m very attractive. I am. I’ve always been that way but it’s no great big deal to me—if anything, it’s worked against me for most of my life.”
‘Marion Bridge’ (Agnes)
“In the dream I’m drowning. But I don’t know it at first. At first I hear water and I imagine it’s going to be a lovely dream.”
‘Cocktails at Pam’s’ (Estelle)
“No, I don’t. I hate it. Actually, do you want to know what I really hate?”
‘Crimes of the Heart’ (Babe)
“After I shot Zackery, I put the gun down on the piano bench, and then I went out into the kitchen and made up a pitcher of lemonade.”
‘Proof’ (Catherine)
“I lived with him. I spent my life with him. I fed him. Talked to him. Tried to listen when he talked.”
‘The Glass Menagerie’ (Tom)
“What do you think I’m at? Aren’t I supposed to have any patience to reach the end of, Mother?”
‘The Performers’ (Chuck Wood)
“Oh boy, I promised Black Attack I wouldn’t cry, but . . . I was not expecting this.”
‘Are You Ready?’ (Woman)
“I’m the food critic for the Times, and I’ve been anxious for some time now to get my claws into the throat of that pompous evil weasel of a restaurateur…”
‘Arcadia’ (Valentine)
“If you knew the algorithm and fed it back say ten thousand times, each time there’d be a dot somewhere on the screen.”
‘Oleanna’ (Carol): “The issue here is not what I ‘feel.'”
“The issue here is not what I “feel.” It is not my “feelings,” but the feelings of women. And men.”
‘Oleanna’ (Carol): “Why do you hate me?”
“Why do you hate me? Because you think me wrong? No. Because I have, you think, power over you.”
‘In the Next Room’ (Catherine Givings)
“Do you want more children, Elizabeth? That is a tactless question, you don’t need to answer, forgive me, sometimes I say whatever is in my head.”