So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
ALAN BENNETTThe majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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