Top 32 Howard Barker Quotes
#1. The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.
Gene Simmons
#2. A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.
Howard Barker
#4. This world is built on awkwardness, on the idea that there is someplace where it's okay to be different. Where it's okay not to be perfect," the troll said. "This world lives in more than one imagination. It was simply your hand that finally gave it a face.
R.K. Ryals
#5. Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
Marge Piercy
#6. Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
Howard Barker
#7. You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool
Howard Barker
#8. I wake up every morning feeling like I have the best life.
Danny Wood
#9. I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
Howard Barker
#10. I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.
Howard Barker
#11. I like bad boys ... not really bad, but men with an edge ... they should be clean but have that streak.
Sonam Kapoor
#14. Paul valued his life, but the doing of God's will was his highest priority.Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide feel the smae. Although, as Jesus foretold, they are 'objects of hatred by all the nations'.
Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society
#15. I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
Howard Barker
#17. I wish I were not sensual... I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp and be grasped, because it drives me into the arms of idiots who want to crush me. Wonderful, idiotic, crushing in the night. Can't you just crush me in the night?
Howard Barker
#18. Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.
Howard Barker
#19. The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.
Taylor Momsen
#20. The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.
Howard Barker
#21. I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
Howard Barker
#22. The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else.
Victor Shamas
#23. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
Patrick Henry
#24. We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.
Howard Barker
#25. I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
Howard Barker
#26. When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.
Howard Barker
#27. The half-moon westers low, my love,
And the wind brings up the rain;
And wide apart lie we, my love,
And seas between the twain.
I know not if it rains, my love,
In the land where you do lie;
And oh, so sound you sleep, my love,
You know no more than I.
A.E. Housman
#28. A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping.
Khem Veasna
#29. I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.
Howard Barker
#30. 'Newhart' ran the longest, and it was great to have a regular role, but I run into a lot of film fans, and they ask me about 'Blade Runner.' I was grateful to be a part of that.
William Sanderson
#32. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!
N.H. Kleinbaum
