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Top 25 Tracy Letts Quotes (2025 Update)

Tracy Letts Quote: “Thank God we can’t tell the future. We’d never get out of bed.”

1. “Thank God we can’t tell the future. We’d never get out of bed.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “We’re all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.”

2. “We’re all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.”

3. “In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.”

4. “My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “All women need makeup. Don’t let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.”

5. “All women need makeup. Don’t let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “Time wounds all heals.”

6. “Time wounds all heals.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “You know, this country was always pretty much a whorehouse, but at least it used to have some promise. Now it’s just a shithole.”

7. “You know, this country was always pretty much a whorehouse, but at least it used to have some promise. Now it’s just a shithole.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “My point is, it’s not cut and dried, black and white, good and bad. It lives where everything lives: somewhere in the middle. Where everything lives, where all the rest of us live, everyone but you.”

8. “My point is, it’s not cut and dried, black and white, good and bad. It lives where everything lives: somewhere in the middle. Where everything lives, where all the rest of us live, everyone but you.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.”

9. “A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.”

10. “Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.”

11. “The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “I said to my wife just the other day, I was actually taking some time to consider all the blessings in my life and that things are really good. I said, you would have to be a real churl to complain about the life I’m living right now. Everything’s going great. I’m having a good time.”

12. “I said to my wife just the other day, I was actually taking some time to consider all the blessings in my life and that things are really good. I said, you would have to be a real churl to complain about the life I’m living right now. Everything’s going great. I’m having a good time.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “JOHNNA: What pills does she take? BEVERLY: Valium. Vicodin. Darvon, Darvocet. Percodan, Percocet. Xanax for fun. OxyContin in a pinch. Some Black Mollies once, just to make sure I was still paying attention. And of course Dilaudid. I shouldn’t forget Dilaudid.”

13. “JOHNNA: What pills does she take? BEVERLY: Valium. Vicodin. Darvon, Darvocet. Percodan, Percocet. Xanax for fun. OxyContin in a pinch. Some Black Mollies once, just to make sure I was still paying attention. And of course Dilaudid. I shouldn’t forget Dilaudid.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “By night within that ancient house Immense, black, damned, anonymous.”

14. “By night within that ancient house Immense, black, damned, anonymous.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “If you feel like you’re in control of everything, and then things aren’t going well, you feel like you’re failing.”

15. “If you feel like you’re in control of everything, and then things aren’t going well, you feel like you’re failing.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “Something has been said for sobriety but very little.”

16. “Something has been said for sobriety but very little.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “I don’t know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.”

17. “I don’t know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “After the success of ‘August,’ there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I’m from the Midwest, and that’s what we do: We go back to work.”

18. “After the success of ‘August,’ there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I’m from the Midwest, and that’s what we do: We go back to work.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.”

19. “What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “Sometimes my family thinks I’ve made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn’t all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.”

20. “Sometimes my family thinks I’ve made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn’t all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “You ever hear of Killer Joe Cooper?”

21. “You ever hear of Killer Joe Cooper?”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “I never know what the hell I’m writing about, I never know what the next thing I’m writing about is, I never have a plan.”

22. “I never know what the hell I’m writing about, I never know what the next thing I’m writing about is, I never have a plan.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “You’re thoughtful, Barbara, but you’re not open. You’re passionate, but you’re hard. You’re a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you’re a pain in the ass.”

23. “You’re thoughtful, Barbara, but you’re not open. You’re passionate, but you’re hard. You’re a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you’re a pain in the ass.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.”

24. “I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “If you’re not entertaining, what the hell’s the point?”

25. “If you’re not entertaining, what the hell’s the point?”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “I’m aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn’t going to be the filmed record of the play. It’s its own separate entity, and I’ve come to peace with that.”

26. “I’m aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn’t going to be the filmed record of the play. It’s its own separate entity, and I’ve come to peace with that.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “BILL: Please, sweetheart, we need to know what went on here. JEAN: Nothing “went on.” Can we just not make a federal case out of everything?”

27. “BILL: Please, sweetheart, we need to know what went on here. JEAN: Nothing “went on.” Can we just not make a federal case out of everything?”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “I’m kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.”

28. “I’m kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.”

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Tracy Letts Quote: “Now think of it this way: which do you think would be better for Dottie, havin’ ten thousand dollars so maybe she could go to that Amazon school, or havin’ a beat-up, old, ugly, naggy, alcoholic.”

29. “Now think of it this way: which do you think would be better for Dottie, havin’ ten thousand dollars so maybe she could go to that Amazon school, or havin’ a beat-up, old, ugly, naggy, alcoholic.”

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