101 Quotes by David Hare

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

He's been both an example and an inspiration to us all.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.