If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once. "
Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.
As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.
The problem's always been to deal with the fear. Cos the fear is pretty. . . it ruins everybody really.
If it weren't for fear, I wouldn't have to teach you a damn thing
The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.
Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Maidens hearts are always soft:Would that men's were truer!