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There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.

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Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.
Timothy West
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
Timothy West
Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.
Timothy West
Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres.
Timothy West
You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.
Timothy West
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
Timothy West
When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.
Timothy West
No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.
Timothy West
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
Timothy West
The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.
Timothy West
Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.
Timothy West
I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.
Timothy West
I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.
Timothy West
I don't believe in right-angled turning points.
Timothy West
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
Timothy West
There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.
Timothy West
There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.
Timothy West
The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.
Timothy West
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.
Timothy West
By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?
Howard Fineman
Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.
Jon Porter
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White
I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.
Sarah Polley
I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.
Hilary Duff
Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
Alan Ladd
I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.
Jessica Hahn
P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.
Johnny Kelly
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander Pope
I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
Louie Anderson
For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
Thora Birch
I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
Anna Friel
I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.
Robert Matsui
I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
Pete Stark
I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
David Letterman
My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.
Stephen Rea
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
Raymond Queneau
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. Johnson
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer
I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?
Stacey Dash
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W. Clement Stone
Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.
Joe Lando
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
James Agate
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie
You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
Kate Hudson
I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.
Ethan Suplee
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
Roger Nash Baldwin