David Hare Quotes: top 78 famous sayings about David Hare

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in

If you like judging, please: be a lawyer. Run a dog show. There's a whole lot of jobs if judging is your passion in life. But take my advice: if you want to be happy, keep your judging professional. And don't start putting in practice at home. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: If you like judging, please: be a lawyer. Run a dog show. There's a whole

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was

Smiles are the language of love. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Smiles are the language of love.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.
[Ten rules for writing fiction, The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, and AL Kennedy)] — P.D. James

David Hare Sayings By P.D. James: Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.[Ten rules for writing fiction, The Guardian,

For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think like that. A writer has to think that it's more important to be right than to be popular. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way,

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare. — Stephen Daldry

David Hare Sayings By Stephen Daldry: There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you

You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire.

No single move traps the king. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: No single move traps the king.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for? — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to

Oh damn and fuck show business and all its ways. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Oh damn and fuck show business and all its ways.

The future of American film lies on television. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The future of American film lies on television.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. — David Hare

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial

In oratory the will must predominate. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: In oratory the will must predominate.

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that

Toby. - It was how I was always told you could get women into bed. By doing something called 'listening to their problems'. It's a contemptible tactic.
Kyra. - You wouldn't do it?
Toby. - No. Of course not. You know me, Kyra. I wouldn't stoop to it. Either they want you or else they don't. Listening's halfway to begging. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Toby. - It was how I was always told you could get women into bed.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Toby. - It was how I was always told you could get women into bed.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm

America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome.

Edward Once they're dead, I find they keep changing. You think you've got hold of them. And it's like you say, 'Oh I see. So that's what she was like.' But then they change again in your memory. It drives you crazy. Now I'd like to find out just who she was. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Edward Once they're dead, I find they keep changing. You think you've got hold of

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Edward Once they're dead, I find they keep changing. You think you've got hold of

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act,

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act,

The world was created this morning. No such thing as the past ... — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The world was created this morning. No such thing as the past ...

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The world was created this morning. No such thing as the past ...

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: 'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: 'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.' — Bill Nighy David Hare Sayings By Bill Nighy: I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point

David Hare Sayings By Bill Nighy: I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point

I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly. — Bill Nighy David Hare Sayings By Bill Nighy: I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I

David Hare Sayings By Bill Nighy: I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I

I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but

What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm

And it's a preference, a long-held preference, what you might call a 'habit of mind' - putting words into other people's mouths. And those people are played by people whose profession is to pretend to be other people. For which purpose, they adopt gestures, voices, intonations, even sexual attitudes not their own. On stage, they affect to be ravished and amused by someone whom they will, afterwards, run a mile to avoid having dinner with. Likewise, they spit torrents of abuse against an actor who later, later, in the softness of the night, they will share their bed with. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: And it's a preference, a long-held preference, what you might call a 'habit of mind'

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: And it's a preference, a long-held preference, what you might call a 'habit of mind'

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely different. It's for presenting an imaginative version of the world which I hope people would recognize and be affected by. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of

On September 11th, America changed. Yes. It got much stupider. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: On September 11th, America changed. Yes. It got much stupider.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: On September 11th, America changed. Yes. It got much stupider.

[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: [David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: [David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries

I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where most feeling is. I don't myself spend my life shouting in rooms, and I don't really believe things in which people do spend their time in total hysteria. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and

Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men's Room, does Sternberg, and struggles with himself. He's needed a bowel movement for hours, and since the LordAloft 7:10 lifted things have gotten critical. He tried, back at O'Hare. But he was unable to, because he was afraid to, afraid that Mark, who has the look of someone who never just has to, might enter the rest room and see Sternberg's shoes under a stall door and know that he, Sternberg, was having a bowel movement in that stall, infer that Sternberg had bowels, and thus organs, and thus a body. Like many Americans of his generation in this awkwardest of post-Imperial decades, an age suspended between exhaustion and replenishment, between input too ordinary to process and input too intense to bear, Sternberg is deeply ambivalent about being embodied; an informing fear that, were he really just an organism, he'd be nothing more than an ism of his organs. — David Foster Wallace David Hare Sayings By David Foster Wallace: Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men's Room, does Sternberg, and struggles with himself.

David Hare Sayings By David Foster Wallace: Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men's Room, does Sternberg, and struggles with himself.

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?' — Bill Nighy David Hare Sayings By Bill Nighy: Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it

David Hare Sayings By Bill Nighy: Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking

Children always turn to the light. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Children always turn to the light.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed

We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves.
The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life therefore having a meaning and shape that eludes the rest of us in the endless wash of 'What the hell are we doing here?' In a single day, says an Israeli friend, he experiences events and emotions that would keep a Swede going for a year. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have

One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

I believe love opens people up. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I believe love opens people up.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish

I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their

In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with one side of the Cold War - then presumably the run on the pound, the result in the stock exchanges of the world, will be fairly catastrophic for the economy. But some sort of political realignment is plainly what this country needs. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO,

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO,

Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live in a country where nobody believes in anything any more. My whole life, I've been told: 'Western civilization? An old bitch gone in the teeth,' And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they're fighting for something they believe in. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow

No one but a fool is always right. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: No one but a fool is always right.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Now it turns out that a few broadsheet film critics in Britain do indeed belong to a category of people who would have resisted Hitler when he came to power. So the great shame is, clearly film critics should have been running Austria at the time, because Hitler would have represented no problem to them at all. [The Guardian's] Peter Bradshaw would have known exactly what to do, and he would not have been remotely fallible to any Nazi who threatened his life. No, he would have died in heroic acts of individual resistance. So it's a privilege to live among people who enjoy such moral certainty. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Now it turns out that a few broadsheet film critics in Britain do indeed belong

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Now it turns out that a few broadsheet film critics in Britain do indeed belong

I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to reinforce the values of the government of the day, nor does it, nor should it. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

We had six years of happiness. And it was you who had to spoil it. With you, when something is right, it's never enough. You don't value happiness. You don't even realize. Because you always want more. (She — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: We had six years of happiness. And it was you who had to spoil it.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: We had six years of happiness. And it was you who had to spoil it.

I love you, for God's sake. I still love you. I loved you more than anyone on earth. But I'll never trust you, after what happened. It's what Alice said. You'll never grow up. There is no peace in you. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I love you, for God's sake. I still love you. I loved you more than

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: I love you, for God's sake. I still love you. I loved you more than

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all

It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?" — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have

When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play. — Denis O'Hare David Hare Sayings By Denis O'Hare: When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had

David Hare Sayings By Denis O'Hare: When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had

My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the market is always rigged, and the rigging is in favour of the people who run the market. That's what the market is. It's a bent casino. The house always wins. — David Hare David Hare Sayings By David Hare: My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free

David Hare Sayings By David Hare: My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'. — Alan Bennett David Hare Sayings By Alan Bennett: At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance,

David Hare Sayings By Alan Bennett: At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance,

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