Angels In America Quotes:

I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.

- Tony Kushner

topic: Dream, Believe, School, Angels In America

Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.

- John Lahr

topic: Drama, Angel, Glasses, Watersheds, Menagerie

I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.

- Tony Kushner

source: "Angels in America". Book by Tony Kushner, May, 1991.

topic: Country, Hate, Crazy, Big Ideas, People Dying

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

- Tony Kushner

source: Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.285, Theatre Communications Group

topic: Dream, Progress, World, Angels In America

There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.

- Tony Kushner

topic: Spiritual, Angel, Past, Ploy, Angels In America

It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.

- Tony Kushner

source: Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.266, Theatre Communications Group

topic: Justice, Easy, Hardest, Angels In America

Real love isn't ever ambivalent,

- Tony Kushner

topic: Real, Real Love, Love Is, Ambivalent, Angels In America

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Life, Friendship, Memories, Inaugural, Inaugural Address

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

- Tony Kushner

topic: White, Anthem, Crackers, Angels In America, National Anthem

I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die

- Tony Kushner

topic: Heart, Heart Break, Break, Angels In America

Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable. Don't you think it's depressing?

- Tony Kushner

topic: Depressing, Thinking, Imagination, Untruthfulness, Bits And Pieces

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

- Chita Rivera

topic: Angel, San Francisco, America, Angels In America

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

- Tony Kushner

topic: Angel, America, Say Anything, Obituary, Angels In America

In Angels in America, I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.

- Ellen McLaughlin

topic: Dream, Angel, Night, Angels In America

I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like Angels In America or in Wit with Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. So, yes, I do find that very interesting and I'm sure that down the road there will be plays that I'll want to do that way.

- Colin Callender

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Angel, Play, Numbers, Emma, Angels In America

When I was probably in middle school I saw the mini series Angels in America for the first time and I think Mary Louise Parker's performance in that first of all sparked a deep obsession with Mary Louise Parker, but I also really love Amy Adams because she gets to do comedy and drama so consistently.

- Grace Phipps

topic: Drama, School, Angel, Middle School, Angels In America