184 Quotes by Harold Pinter

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.

A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.

I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.