I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
