Actor Quotes by Harold Pinter

8 Actor quotes by Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter’s eight brief reflections echo his trademark minimalism and tension. The snippets provide a sharp, concise look at how he values silence, subtext, and the actor’s subtle power.

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A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his…

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

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I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory…

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All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,'…

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My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

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As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm…

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I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.

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I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's…

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I also found being called Sir rather silly.

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I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.

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Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

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

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“DEELEY: Myself I was a student then, juggling with my future, wondering should I bejasus saddle myself with a slip of a girl not…

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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

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A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor…

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I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very…

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Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't…

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I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

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“What sound was that? I turn away, into the shaking room. What was that sound that came in on the dark? What is this…

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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing…

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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives…

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

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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

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