27 Quotes by Mike Bartlett

Without my voice and spirit I am dust. This is not what I want, but what I must.

Without my voice, and spirit, I am dust,This is not what I want, but what I must

...I am better Thoughtful Prince than King. Potential holds appeal since in its castle wallsOne is protected from the awful shameOf failure.

I think it's bad. But, you look at where we went from when we had the gas crisis in the '70s; we went to smaller vehicles and conservation. And then we did a 180, and now we're back to everybody driving a big, four-wheel-drive truck that gets real low gas mileage.

It all comes down to money. And right now we have the money.

What's great about theater and drama is it thrives on dialogue, and dialogue thrives on people with different points of view fighting for what they want.

I don't think anyone is boring, actually, if you ask the right questions and look at them the right way.

Where do we invest our trust now? In politicians? Most people would say not. In banks, in religion, in a sense of nationhood? In each other? Even that has been complicated. It feels like there's a total collapse of trust, but without trust, it's impossible to have any sense of who one is.

Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most awful, terminal nonsense.