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" If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. "

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" Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night. "

" There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to. "

" If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me. "

" For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction. "

" After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. "

" The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me. "

" In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like. "

" From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. "

" Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older. "

" A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times. "

" I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about. "

" In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. "

" I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. "

" I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. "

" You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation. "

" I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt. "

" One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time. "

" I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech. "

" People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that. "

" I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life. "

" Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging. "

" A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. "

" I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm. "

" I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop. "

" A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. "

" Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. "

" Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. "

" If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted. "

" I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition. "

" I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated. "