Tennessee Williams Character Quotations

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.