Simon McBurney Quotes
Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.
Quotes to Explore
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
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What musicals need is a new me.
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The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.
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I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.
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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
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I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
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One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.
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I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.
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Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.
