--- title: "10 Something Quotes By Simon McBurney" description: "10 Something quotes by Simon McBurney. Plus more from Simon McBurney and more Something sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b3/simon-mcburney-7667_about_there-s-something-hopeful-about-endgame_1556219.png" --- > [There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/there-s-something-hopeful-about-endgame-beckett-strips-everything/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b3/simon-mcburney-7667_about_there-s-something-hopeful-about-endgame_1556219.png) > [I find all food irresistible. I have friends who live in the mountains in France. One of them sells vegetables, and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-find-all-food-irresistible-i-have-friends-who-live-in-the-mountains/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fed/simon-mcburney-7667_bursting_i-find-all-food-irresistible-i-have-frie_1383912.png) > [I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-m-naturally-attracted-to-something-i-don-t-understand-because-when/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ae/simon-mcburney-7667_another_i-m-naturally-attracted-to-something-i-d_2180783.jpg) > ['Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/endgame-resists-narrative-and-even-thematic-explanation-how-you-play/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e3/simon-mcburney-7667_advance_endgame-resists-narrative-and-even-thema_2820300.png) > [I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-might-be-like-a-conductor-or-i-collect-the-stuff-together-and-i-do/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/338/simon-mcburney-7667_collect_i-might-be-like-a-conductor-or-i-collect_780479.jpg) > [I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-sometimes-feel-i-would-like-to-do-crazy-things-with-endgame-where/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df1/simon-mcburney-7667_being_i-sometimes-feel-i-would-like-to-do-craz_2069076.png) > [Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/any-play-that-s-making-a-point-is-less-interesting-than-something/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/947/simon-mcburney-7667_actor_any-play-that-s-making-a-point-is-less-i_3123403.png) > [Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/theatre-is-about-the-collective-imagination-everything-i-use-on-stage/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02a/simon-mcburney-7667_about_theatre-is-about-the-collective-imaginat_2123180.jpg) > [The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/the-very-beautiful-and-very-touching-thing-about-opera-singers-is/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd0/simon-mcburney-7667_about_the-very-beautiful-and-very-touching-thi_705043.png) > [Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/everyone-sees-something-different-in-endgame-a-biblical-apocalypse-a/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/761/simon-mcburney-7667_about_everyone-sees-something-different-in-end_2390712.jpg) ## Other authors on Something ## More by Simon McBurney > [The brain constantly assures us, reassures us, that we are in control. But the closer you look, the more questions you have about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/the-brain-constantly-assures-us-reassures-us-that-we-are-in-control/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/theatre-artists-are-essentially-sort-of-charlatans-and-thieves-i-mean/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not worried by the commercial sector. I refuse to work in any other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/my-work-is-not-generally-in-the-commercial-sector-however-i-m-not/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/in-my-opinion-there-s-nothing-new-in-the-theatre-ever-theatre-makers/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/our-lives-are-a-sequence-of-things-when-we-re-alive-they-re/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/we-try-to-place-the-human-body-in-relation-to-the-image-all-the-time/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-constantly-want-to-know-what-is-a-table-or-what-is-a-cat/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/the-only-reality-of-the-theater-exists-in-the-mind-of-the-audience/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-suppose-as-an-actor-you-become-very-sensitive-to-rhythm-not-just/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-remember-the-fact-that-milk-was-delivered-every-day-by-a-milkman-in/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > ['Mnemonic' is a play about memory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/mnemonic-is-a-play-about-memory/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/i-have-always-felt-more-at-home-in-a-culture-that-has-nothing-to-do/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/yes-it-was-chaos-working-through-chaos-you-never-quite-knew-what-you/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/one-of-the-things-he-liked-about-playwriting-as-to-any-other-kind-of/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) > [With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-mcburney/with-the-theatre-for-god-s-sake-everything-makes-sense-you-create-a/) [Simon McBurney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-mcburney/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/something/simon-mcburney/#itemlist", "name": "10 Something Quotes By Simon McBurney", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. 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