Caryl Churchill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Writing #Play #People
England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Children #Fall #Clouds
How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?
-- Caryl Churchill

#Sweet #Travel #Home
Weâ€™ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. Weâ€™ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. Weâ€™ve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Cheer #Nine #Doe
I'd go without food if I could have a flower.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Flower
Parties are a cruel kind of fun.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Fun #Party #Kind
You can't win every week.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Winning #Week
What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Dog #Night #Tyrants
What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Dream #Real #Awake
People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?
-- Caryl Churchill

#Dust #Wings #Feet
You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Disappear
[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Leadership #May #Prime
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Thinking #Alive #Pretending
Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Real #Space #Light
Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Mean #Spirit #Painting

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