97 Quotes by Johnny Rich

The characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it’s all just puppetry on the part of the writer.

Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.

I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded

I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice.

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.

But why should he be open-minded when he thinks he’s right?

Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.

He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

Silent is an anagram of listen.