Quotes by Harold Pinter

About Harold Pinter:

Harold Pinter was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

Harold Pinter

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Harold Pinter

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

Harold Pinter

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

Harold Pinter

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

Harold Pinter

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

Harold Pinter

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

Harold Pinter

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

Harold Pinter

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

Harold Pinter

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

Harold Pinter

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

Harold Pinter

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

Harold Pinter

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Harold Pinter

I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.

Harold Pinter

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Harold Pinter

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

Harold Pinter

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

Harold Pinter

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

Harold Pinter

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Harold Pinter

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

Harold Pinter

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

Harold Pinter

Author Bio

  • NameHarold Pinter
  • Descriptionplaywright from England
  • BornOctober 10, 1930
  • DiedDecember 24, 2008
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Actor; Film Director; Screenwriter; Writer
  • WorksThe Room; The Birthday Party; The Dumb Waiter; The Caretaker
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Knight Of The Legion Of Honour; Laurence Olivier Award; Austrian State Prize For European Literature; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Hermann Kesten Prize; Franz Kafka Prize; America Award In Literature