Richard Eyre quotes

“I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.”
-- Richard Eyre

Source : "Richard Eyre: 'I don't feel directing has to be a young man's game'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.

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“We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.”
-- Richard Eyre

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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 the oyster.”
-- Richard Eyre

Source : "A life in theatre: Richard Eyre" by Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

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“Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.”
-- Richard Eyre

Source : "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.

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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 big cliff that we've all got to climb.”
-- Richard Eyre

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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.”
-- Richard Eyre

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“What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.”
-- Richard Eyre

Source : "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.

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“People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life.”

“Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.”

“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.”

“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”