A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.

The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

I don't believe in right-angled turning points.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

Be an empowertarian. A person who empowers their own life and that of others.

One has to commit a painting, ' said Degas, 'the way one commits a crime.

I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

I started singing because I come from Wales

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Hidan: That was pitiful! What happened there, buddy? Kakuzu: You should talk. I wasn't the one who fell for a shadow clone! Hidan: Ahaha, right. You saw that?

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think that does need a Darwinian explanation.

Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy