The 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.
ALAN BENNETTGod doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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