Timothy West famous quotes

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The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.
-- Timothy West

#Goodnight #Good Night #Car
Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.
-- Timothy West

#Money #Fighting #Complaining
You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.
-- Timothy West

#Hunting #Steps #Hunts
The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.
-- Timothy West

#People #Foyers #Looks
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
-- Timothy West

#Class #Playwright #Elizabethan
No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.
-- Timothy West

#Thinking #Play #Enough
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
-- Timothy West

#Art #Hands #Theatre
I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.
-- Timothy West

#Class #Use
I don't believe in right-angled turning points.
-- Timothy West

#Believe
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
-- Timothy West

#Character #Trying #Playwright
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
-- Timothy West

#War #Reality #Long
Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.
-- Timothy West

#People #Groups #Lord

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