Janet Suzman Quotes

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• I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right…
• OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back…
• I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an…
• I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was…
• Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being…
• Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually…
• I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character…
• But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the…
• I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour…
• And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.
• My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
• You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
• Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement…
• But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts…
• But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is…
• It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the…
• One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really…
• So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life…
• This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified…

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