I have great respect for Brecht, but his path is not mine.

“Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political…

— Harold Bloom

I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes,…

— Nicholas Royle

It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling…

— David Nicholls

In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

— Alain Badiou

Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht)…

— Eugene Ionesco

I've never done a [Berthold] Brecht. In the 1960s when the Berliner Ensemble came over [to England] with Helene Weigel [Brecht's second wife], I…

— John Hurt

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly…

— Philip Auslander

“Our ambitions were, nonetheless, what those of any sensible group of women at that time, perhaps at any modern time, ought to have been:…

— Renata Adler

“Subtle! Subtlety is bourgeois. Brecht us that when he popped drama’s cherry. He fucked drama until it stopped being subtle, like a lady, and…

— David Burr Gerrard

“Food comes first and then morality Bertolt brecht”

— bertolt brecht

“Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the…

— Madeleine Thien

I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the…

— Bertolt Brecht

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan…

— David Antin

“As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism.…

— David Mamet

I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition.

— Nina Hagen