Israel Horovitz Quotes

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

Israel Horovitz

• Time
• Theatre
• Irrelevant

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.

Israel Horovitz

• Street
• Old Age
• Good Shape

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

Israel Horovitz

• Yourself
• Write
• Get Down

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

Israel Horovitz

• Name
• Carrying
• Torah

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

Israel Horovitz

• Write
• Questions
• Ask

Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.

Israel Horovitz

• Faith
• Theatre
• Alive

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

Israel Horovitz

• Personality
• Part
• Fighter

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.

Israel Horovitz

• Theater
• Cute
• L.A.

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.

Israel Horovitz

• Enough
• Written
• Troubling

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

Israel Horovitz

• People
• Comedy
• Turn