I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.
Wendy WassersteinBruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
Wendy WassersteinPersonally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.
Wendy WassersteinA diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.
Wendy WassersteinI wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, โI can't get into this, it's all about girls.โ I thought to myself, โWell, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.โ
Wendy Wasserstein