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The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. ”
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. ”
We're actors. We're the opposite of people. ”
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? ”
Good things, when short, are twice as good. ”
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. ”
It is better to be quotable than to be honest. ”
All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. ”
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. ”
Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. ”