Dickens Quotes

• A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Heart
  • History
  • Drama

• As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Dream
  • Reading

• I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

  

  Harry Lloyd
  • Dramas
  • Dickens

• It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.

  

  Harry Lloyd
  • Debt
  • Blacking factory
  • Marshalsea Prison

• As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.

  

  Harry Lloyd
  • Child
  • Stories
  • Mirror

• If you're going to be related to someone it might as well be Dickens.

  

  Harry Lloyd
  • Dickens

• I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don't have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Character
  • Sunshine
  • Rainy

• I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.

  

  Paul Rhys
  • Read
  • Obsessed
  • Dickens

• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Acting
  • Calm
  • Inspiring