I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to reinforce the values of the government of the day, nor does it, nor should it. — David Hare Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. — David Hare Copy Share Image
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having. — David Hare Copy Share Image
When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is… — David Hare Copy Share Image
My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes. — David Hare Copy Share Image
I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire.” — David Hare Copy Share Image
