Sharon Pollock Quotes

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I must suffer from some sort of mental disease. I didn't really feel that personally connected with Doc (1984), because I'd moved past some of the more painfully subjective moments in the script. But here's how crazy I am. All the characters in the play bear their real-life names.

Sharon Pollock

When I look back, I'm not the same person I was in 1972 and I'm not the same person I was in the 1980s, and it would be a very sad thing if I was.

Sharon Pollock

Sometimes you don't know what it is you're writing. Your brain is playing a trick on you. If I knew I was going to delve so deeply into my past life I never would have done it.

Sharon Pollock

I didn't like my mother very much when she was growing up. I hated her in fact. I used to say, 'My God, you're trying to kill yourself again? Couldn't you even do that right?' Now you know why a lot of my earlier plays didn't have a lot of female characters in them.

Sharon Pollock

I always say that the realities of life are the flour and eggs and vanilla a playwright puts into the cake that she's baking. And when it's all finished, who can taste the flour and eggs and vanilla anymore? It's all about the cake itself.

Sharon Pollock

Sharon Pollock

Sharon Pollock

Born: April 19, 1936

Died: April 22, 2021 (aged 85)

Bio: Sharon Pollock was a Canadian playwright, actress and director who lived in Calgary, Alberta.

Known for:

Blood Relations (2007)
Blood relations and other plays (1981)
Fair liberty's call (1995)
Sharon Pollock (2003)
Saucy Jack (1994)

Sharon Pollock on Wikipedia

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