"People's opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever."

“Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.”

“How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.”

“Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.”

“To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.”

“Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.”

Source : "Is this it?". Interview with Adrian Lobb, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2009.

“I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.”

“Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.”

“I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.”