Samuel Beckett Quote

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How co...

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. a...

A red nose is the clown's mask and my moustache is mine.

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task. One-w...

I have Shakespeared my Moliere to Tenessee, and I am Wild for Becket! But I got a little tired of the redundancy.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.