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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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- Nov 07, 2020
George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.
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- Nov 07, 2020