Alan Bennett Quotes

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

Alan Bennett

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• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Environment
  • Better

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Film
  • Stars

• Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Relationship
  • Perfect
  • Divorce

• The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Mad

• I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • Travel
  • My Life

• Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Up
  • Special
  • Authority

• Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Bones

• Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • High
  • Uniform

• The national Log Cabin Republicans are ridiculous. They’re not conservative at all. I don’t even think they’re gay - they’re bi (partisan). GOProud is comprised of real conservatives who happen to be gay. (Same with the Texas LCRs, for whom I’ve been signing books for years.)

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Real
  • Gay
  • Texas

• My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Great
  • Family
  • She

• I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.

  

  Bill Hader
  • City

• We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Different
  • Game
  • Mistake

• Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Together
  • Stop
  • Die

• We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

  

  Saint Basil

• In the early stages of wealth, up to 10 years after individuals became very rich, they display a bit of reluctance to spend money. It's a lot easier rationalizing spending a lot for a house.

  

  Frederick W. Taylor
  • Up
  • Money
  • House

• If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.

  

  Charles Francis Richter
  • Energy

• Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

  

  Alan Bennett
  • Life
  • Side
  • Glass