I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison. — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
It's usually the people that are most obsessed with being in a relationship that are the least prepared to make work. — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way,… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
“I was just rather fascinated by certain what seemed to me insoluble paradoxes about reflection, about what it was like to look in one… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image