Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
We're actors — we're the opposite of people!
Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.
Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.
Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each...
GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably...
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of bein...
Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king.Yes.Unorthodox.
We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewher...
Your opinions are your symptoms.
Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, an...
It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
GULL (musing) : The law of probability, it has been oddly asserted, is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys (he has surprised himself) ... if six monkeys were .. .ROS: Game?GULL: W...