KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Beau Willimon Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Beau Willimon

Showing 31-37 of 37 Quotes by Beau Willimon

The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Accurately Dark Dark Place From Time To Time Got Lights Out Place Political Portray Time Turn Want World You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Because Certainly Eye Fiction Keep Life Often Stranger Than Time Washington

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Experience Friends Lives Love Our Our Lives Our Love Politicians Power Struggles Way Workplace

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Ability Been Blood Cram Dimensions Door Everything Flesh Had Just Me Medium Narrative New Opened Painting Paintings Plays Real Real Time Realized Space Static Stories Supplied Tell Three Time Trying Ultimately Up Which Whole Writing

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Able Absolutely Car Done Every Factories Gonna How Job Know Liberating Living Make Many Prep Rent Sat Sun Tables Were Where Working Write Years

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Against Another Antagonistic Both Concert Each Expose Morning Need News Odds Often Other Out Politicians Press Setting Simply Symbiotic Uncover Up Wake Wake Up Work

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Accept Beings Best Cynical Fact Flawed Human Human Beings Politicians Politics Represent See Think Us Way Worst I See

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Beau Willimon on Amazon

Related Authors

George Ade
Eve Ensler
Lorraine Hansberry
Jean Kerr
Arthur Miller
Sam Shepard
Neil Simon
August Wilson

Popular Authors

Erma Bombeck Robert Frost Mitch Hedberg Hubert H. Humphrey H. Jackson Brown, Jr. H. L. Mencken Vladimir Putin Theodore Roosevelt

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1890 - H. P. Lovecraft

1601 - Pierre De Fermat

1833 - Benjamin Harrison

1881 - Edgar Guest

1886 - Paul Tillich

1892 - George Aiken

1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo

1907 - Shirley Booth

1908 - Al Lopez

1917 - Terry Sanford

Birthdays on August 20th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anniversary Christmas Death Family Famous Father's Day Medical Power