Quote: Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
[Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And that consists mainly of food. Minutes of the last meal and proposals for the next. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: You might as well have put her on a stage eating a plate of spaghetti and put a rope round her chair instead of putting her in a theatre where she wasn't at home and was struggling. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: it couldn't have happened to a nicer person and it's a most fitting award. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: Salad, I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong. [Alan Ayckbourn]
Quote: What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious. [Alan Ayckbourn]