It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on…

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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in...

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in...

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing:...

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing:...

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing:...

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing:...

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying...

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying...

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but...

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but...

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind,...

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind,...

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which...

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which...

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators...

Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators...

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to...

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to...

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go...

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go...

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now...

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now...

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very...

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very...

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed...

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed...