Quotes by Playwrights

I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out. Damon Galgut

Definitely Airport Out Trains Planes Incapable Working

Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing. Damon Galgut

Good Me Writing Mind State Composed Yoga Which Serene Helps

Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention. Damon Galgut

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance. Dario Fo

Time Theatre Speak Own Relevance Does Artistic Artistic Expression Literature Expression

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics. Dario Fo

Politics Every Adds Something Artistic Artistic Expression Influenced Either Expression

It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage. Dario Fo

Old Rage Bad Nobel Making Getting Explode Many Fossils

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life. Dario Fo

Life Death You Fair Well Conclusion Courting Afraid Either Lived

I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and... pssss... they deflate. Dario Fo

You Power Big Those Laugh Out Plug Conceited Leap Make Around Reveal How Making Am Go Up Get Which Them Shots Show Who Wars Fun Slaughtered Pull

My theater has always been a political battle on the stage. Dario Fo

Battle Political Stage Always Been Theater

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. Dario Fo

Art Telling Spontaneously Learned Boy Ironic Stories

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression. Dario Fo

Politics Freedom Ugly Church Thought Signs Resurgence Had Instead Freedom Of Expression Withdrawn Terrible Italian Interfering Expression

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest. Dario Fo

War Nevertheless Involved Were Mode Dishonest Justification Games

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs. Dario Fo

People Side State Types Way Circumstances Saddam Accept Affairs Iraq American Current Often Current State Happens Which Descended Why Level

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized. Dario Fo

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people. Dario Fo

Love Satire People Everywhere Dead Dead People Without Always Found

Smiles are the language of love. David Hare

Love Language Smiles

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none. David Hare

Great Thinking Films Our Waving Once Introduced Some Simply Days Most None Came America Fiction Which Interesting Us Farewell Europe Shows Now Film-Makers

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. David Hare

Truth Honor Purity Masculine Feminine

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. David Hare

Civilization Tendency Towards Ultimate Barbarism

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. David Hare

God Honor Those Only Sin Disgrace Whose

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare

Poetry Prose Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Century

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. David Hare

Nature Key Poetry