If it weren't for fear, I wouldn't have to teach you a damn thing

If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.

Some people in this life think they're worth something, or that they have a right to things. I never thought I had a right to anything 'cause of the way I was broken as a child. And therefore I was sort of floating around and would get sucked into things.

There are people who prefer to say ‘Yes’, and there are people who prefer to say ‘No’. Those who say ‘Yes’ are rewarded by the adventures they have, and those who say ‘No’ are rewarded by the safety they attain.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.