I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matt...
EMMA:You know what I found out ... last night? He's betrayed me for years. He's had... other women for years.JERRYNo? Good Lord.(Pause)But we betrayed him for years.EMMAAnd he betrayed me for years.JE...
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
Did you think of her as your best friend?-she was my only friend.-your best and only.-my one and only. if you have only one of something you can't say it's the best of anything.
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
Philosophy is a process of inquiry only. It doesn't attempt to find specific answers to specific questions.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of
Stan, don't let them tell you what to do!
JERRY: Look at the way you're looking at me. I can't wait for you. I'm bowled over, I'm totally knocked out, you dazzle me, you jewel, my jewel, I can't ever sleep again, no, listen, it's the truth, I...
If you have only one of something you can’t say it’s the best of anything.
EMMA It was never intended to be the same kind of home. Was it? Pause. You didn’t ever see it as a home, in any sense, did you? JERRY No, I saw it as a flat . . . you know. EMMA For fucking. JERRY No,...
JERRY: I was best man at your wedding. I saw you in white. I watched you glide by in white.EMMA: I wasn’t in white.JERRY: You know what should have happened?EMMA: What?JERRY: I should have had you, in...
But death permits youTo arrange your hours
In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?
You wouldn't understand my works. You wouldn't have the faintest idea of what they were about. You wouldn't appreciate the points of reference. You're way behind. All of you. There's no point in sendi...
When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.