Richard Eyre Quotes

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
Richard Eyre

Deep, Young, Place

Balance is the enemy of art.
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Art, Enemy, Balance

Don't ever be afraid to ask any question.
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Afraid, Question, Ask

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.
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Good, Try, Action

Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
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Love, True, Pleasure

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
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Feelings, Rather, Facts

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.
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Between, Lives, Quiet

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.
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Anyone, Admire, Essential

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
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Happiness, Envy, Others

I resent all organised religions.
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Religions, Resent, Organised

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.
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Become, Big, Between

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.
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Self, Child, Deal

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
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Money, Giving, Point

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
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Reality, Chance, Means

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
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Student, Movie, Object

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
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Poetry, Moment, Creative

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
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Happiness, Arts, Weapons

The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
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Faith, Work, Good

There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
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Said, Leave, Needing

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
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History, Humanity, Feelings

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.
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Experience, Confidence, Until

All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.
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Good, Stupid, May

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
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Life, Art, Rather

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
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Change, Human, Person

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.
Richard Eyre

Happiness, Politics, Society

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Nationality: British

Born: March 28, 1943

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