I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about.… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The trouble is if you dont spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.à — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“In an ultimate sense I cannot know what I do in this place - yet I do ultimate things. Essentially I cannot know what… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.” — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me,… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The Devil isn’t made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
