"Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings,……" — Richard Eyre
"Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in the kitchen and winking and corpsing above the heads of our audience, the unsuspecting customers."
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Richard Eyre
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21 Quotes by Richard Eyre
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I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's…
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We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's…
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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…
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Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable…
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I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the…
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I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
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If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be…
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Balance is the enemy of art.
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The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
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Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
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What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history -…
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I resent all organised religions.
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