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.
ALAN BENNETTWhy do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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