There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. Harold Pinter More Quotes by Harold Pinter More Quotes From Harold Pinter One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. Harold Pinter speech literature way I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught. Harold Pinter cities heaven people I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham. Harold Pinter doing dumb time birthday George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people. Harold Pinter mind love people world 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 day betrayal one-day people I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it. Harold Pinter well some being like Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man. Harold Pinter i-am man sweat my-own I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that. Harold Pinter me time love school Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task. Harold Pinter search never you truth My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day. Harold Pinter day good mother morning Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life. Harold Pinter my-life watching cricket life The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare. Harold Pinter saw ever only theatre Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches. Harold Pinter small cricket happens drama Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice. Harold Pinter problems own theatre political
