Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employment...
The public execution did not re-establish justice; it reactivated power. In the seventeenth century, and even in the early eighteenth century, it was not, therefore, with all its theatre of terror, a lingering hang-over from an earlier age. Its ruthl...
I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I st...
…and yet, at the end of it all, a few very broad lines did seem to stick out, like the primary colors in a painting that explain all the confusing blends. And once I had understood my artificial convention, as one understands a convention of the th...
Kevin Lomax: God dammit, what did you do to my wife? John Milton: Well, on a scale of one to ten... ten being the most depraved act of sexual theatre know to man... one being your average Friday night run-through at the Lomaxes' household... I'd say,...
Marie: Restaurants are to people in the 80's what theatres were to people in the 60's. I read that in a magazine. Jess: I wrote that. Marie: Get out of here. Jess: I did, I wrote that. Marie: Where did I read that? Jess: New York magazine Harry: Sall...
Lloyd Richards: I shall never understand the weird process by which a body with a voice suddenly fancies itself as a mind. Just when exactly does an actress decide they're HER words she's speaking and HER thoughts she's expressing? Margo Channing: Us...
Every actor thinks to themselves, 'What if I wake up and I'm 45 and I'm still waiting tables, still waiting for that part and it never comes.' I think I'd probably still be at it because acting isn't something I can walk away from. I might be doing c...
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
The failure of the nation lies in the failure of its citizens.
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.
of their passions in the same object at that particular time.
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.
Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
