11 Beckett Quotes for You to Enjoy

There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light. Simon McBurney

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Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy. Peter O'Toole

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We grew up on Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett. You're making something about men on the verge of a nervous breakdown, you're going to look to those guys. Robert Eggers

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There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens. Dylan Moran

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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great. Val Kilmer

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My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss. John Cameron Mitchell

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My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. Edward Albee

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Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot. John Lahr

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Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me. Peter Handke

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I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at 'Gossip Girl' auditions, thinking, 'Wow, I really wasted my money.' Betty Gilpin

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