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

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.

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

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.

Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

Your date will not be impressed by you throwing up on her brand-new shoes, as you spout poetic babblings that are meaningful only to you.

People relate to you a lot more when you're honest and authentic - and that's hard to do in front of millions of people every week.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.