Israel Horovitz Quotes

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Israel Horovitz

Profession : Playwright

Birth : March 31, 1939

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

Israel Horovitz

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

Israel Horovitz

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.

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I've always been a fighter - it's always been a part of my personality.

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My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.

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I've done nothing with my life but write plays.

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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

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I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.

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Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

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People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.

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I am an internationally produced playwright.

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Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.

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I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.

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I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.

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I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

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Radical politics tend to be simple minded.

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Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

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France is very welcoming to foreign writers.

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I was not to the manor born.

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