My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti...
HAROLD PINTER The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and ...
HAROLD PINTER I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
HAROLD PINTER Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
HAROLD PINTER Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as w...
HAROLD PINTER Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
HAROLD PINTER The general thrust these days is: Oh, come on, it's all in the past, nobody's interested any more, i...
HAROLD PINTER I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greate...
HAROLD PINTER One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
HAROLD PINTER Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
HAROLD PINTER I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can af...
HAROLD PINTER I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I w...
HAROLD PINTER The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, a...
HAROLD PINTER You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide wh...
HAROLD PINTER I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to...
HAROLD PINTER I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most ch...
HAROLD PINTER Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
HAROLD PINTER I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greate...
HAROLD PINTER It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
HAROLD PINTER There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and...
HAROLD PINTER The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.
HAROLD PINTER My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At lea...
HAROLD PINTER While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most det...
HAROLD PINTER I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, pr...
HAROLD PINTER One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, thou...
HAROLD PINTER I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school wa...
HAROLD PINTER The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to ...
HAROLD PINTER Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.
HAROLD PINTER George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the...
HAROLD PINTER I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public ni...
HAROLD PINTER The general thrust these days is: "Oh, come on, it's all in the past, nobody's interested any more, ...
HAROLD PINTER There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets in...
HAROLD PINTER If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constitute...
HAROLD PINTER I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it'...
HAROLD PINTER I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be so...
HAROLD PINTER There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had th...
HAROLD PINTER It is indeed, ... But to get the oil from the Caspian Sea into the hands of the West you can't use b...
HAROLD PINTER I have written 29 plays and I think that's really enough,
HAROLD PINTER I view them with contempt and that contempt grows stronger every day. I am talking about the United ...
HAROLD PINTER I'm pretty self-critical,
HAROLD PINTER address the state of the world.
HAROLD PINTER I feel a great affinity to his way of thinking. That's why I wanted to work with him. He is a compos...
HAROLD PINTER As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny, up to a point. Beyond that point, it ceases to be...
HAROLD PINTER And in a sense I haven't looked back since - I just kept writing away really.
HAROLD PINTER I believe one fringe company is currently staging The Lover.
HAROLD PINTER The Go-Between.
HAROLD PINTER Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
HAROLD PINTER It's a scintillating stratagem. Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the...
HAROLD PINTER I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.
HAROLD PINTER An arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the me...
HAROLD PINTER find our garden in flames.
HAROLD PINTER One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
HAROLD PINTER There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
HAROLD PINTER I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The dir...
HAROLD PINTER Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.
HAROLD PINTER No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all...
HAROLD PINTER I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to ...
HAROLD PINTER The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you ...
HAROLD PINTER Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The...
HAROLD PINTER It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns
HAROLD PINTER Mr. Bush and his gang do know what they're doing, and Blair, unless he really is the deluded idiot h...
HAROLD PINTER I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in En...
HAROLD PINTER This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck ...
HAROLD PINTER I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term its...
HAROLD PINTER Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the ...
HAROLD PINTER Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers a...
HAROLD PINTER A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surreali...
HAROLD PINTER I can't really articulate what I feel,
HAROLD PINTER I have no idea why they gave me the award, ... I respect their judgment. I am very grateful.
HAROLD PINTER We had a group picture taken with him and he also did some autographs and George signed an 'Ocean's ...
DORIS PINTER I asked a member of the crew if I could have the sheets that Jon and George laid on autographed and ...
DORIS PINTER Jon Stewart and George Clooney made a skit in my bed and my bedroom ... (that) will be on the Academ...
DORIS PINTER We were surprised in our room. Suddenly the police came in and didn't let us leave on the night befo...
JUERGEN PINTER I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
HAROLD RAMIS The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
HAROLD TAYLOR If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
HAROLD WILSON Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
HAROLD WILSON I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep...
HAROLD WILSON The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSON The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
HAROLD WILSON This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
HAROLD WILSON One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
HAROLD WILSON A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSON Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSON I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
HAROLD WILSON We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
HAROLD WILSON I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSON One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
HAROLD WARNER Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
HAROLD WARNER The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
HAROLD WARNER We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
HAROLD TAYLOR I don't think I have a black-hat image.
HAROLD SIMMONS I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the ima...
HAROLD SIMMONS I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do...
HAROLD SIMMONS Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given q...
HAROLD SIMMONS The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
HAROLD RUSSELL I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
HAROLD RUSSELL My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widel...
HAROLD ROSS Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
HAROLD ROSS American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, es...
HAROLD ROSENBERG Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
HAROLD ROSENBERG The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a h...
HAROLD ROSENBERG The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of w...
HAROLD ROSENBERG The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself fr...
HAROLD ROSENBERG America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of ...
HAROLD ROSENBERG I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
HAROLD ROBBINS Hemingway was a jerk.
HAROLD ROBBINS My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're...
HAROLD RAMIS I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time beca...
HAROLD RAMIS I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
HAROLD RAMIS The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park...
HAROLD RAMIS I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so ...
HAROLD RAMIS Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that an...
HAROLD RAMIS I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently sug...
HAROLD RAMIS I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human ...
HAROLD RAMIS First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with...
HAROLD RAMIS I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core...
HAROLD RAMIS I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at...
HAROLD RAMIS Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
HAROLD RAMIS I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
HAROLD RAMIS I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'...
HAROLD RAMIS Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You...
HAROLD RAMIS Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're fu...
HAROLD RAMIS The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it ...
HAROLD RAMIS I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
HAROLD RAMIS How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
HAROLD RAMIS We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
HAROLD PRINCE One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
HAROLD PRINCE I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se...
HAROLD PRINCE I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm d...
HAROLD PRINCE I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in reh...
HAROLD PRINCE I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think ...
HAROLD PRINCE It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that ...
HAROLD PRINCE The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it ou...
HAROLD PRINCE A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
HAROLD PRINCE I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stoppin...
HAROLD PRINCE When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just...
HAROLD PRINCE Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great star...
HAROLD PRINCE I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody wh...
HAROLD PRINCE I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, provi...
HAROLD PRINCE The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad thing...
HAROLD PRINCE I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move th...
HAROLD PRINCE I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
HAROLD PRINCE I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really c...
HAROLD PERRINEAU I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had e...
HAROLD PERRINEAU You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by ...
HAROLD PERRINEAU The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
HAROLD NICOLSON We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
HAROLD NICOLSON I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ...
HAROLD NICHOLAS If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th...
HAROLD NICHOLAS In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a stat...
HAROLD MACMILLAN Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
HAROLD MACMILLAN No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
HAROLD MACMILLAN It's no use crying over spilt summits.
HAROLD MACMILLAN (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
HAROLD MACMILLAN When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
HAROLD MACMILLAN There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MACMILLAN To be alive at all involves some risk.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
HAROLD MACMILLAN If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better...
HAROLD MACMILLAN I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
HAROLD MACMILLAN As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound i...
HAROLD MACMILLAN I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I w...
HAROLD LARWOOD In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
HAROLD LARWOOD Cricket was my reason for living.
HAROLD LARWOOD I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much a...
HAROLD KUSHNER Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which th...
HAROLD HAMM Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. A...
HAROLD HAMM Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and thi...
HAROLD HAMM Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
HAROLD HAMM A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
HAROLD HAMM The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking ...
HAROLD HAMM I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my car...
HAROLD HAMM Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
HAROLD HAMM I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, drivi...
HAROLD HAMM I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
HAROLD HAMM President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
HAROLD HAMM President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash p...
HAROLD HAMM I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
HAROLD HAMM I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to En...
HAROLD HAMM No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
HAROLD HAMM It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on start...
HAROLD HAMM I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
HAROLD FEINSTEIN I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Par...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; wh...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't ...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where peo...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and ...
HAROLD EVANS Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and...
HAROLD EVANS For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
HAROLD EVANS I think America has a brilliant future.
HAROLD EVANS Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with pa...
HAROLD EVANS The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
HAROLD COFFIN The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
HAROLD COFFIN When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
HAROLD COFFIN Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
HAROLD COFFIN