
Top 28 Jez Butterworth Quotes
#1. Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
George Herbert
#2. The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.
Neil Gaiman
#3. Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants!
Jez Butterworth
#5. When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.
Jez Butterworth
#6. I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.
Jez Butterworth
#7. The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security ... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.
Baruch Spinoza
#8. Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
Bill Hybels
#9. I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
Jez Butterworth
#10. I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.
Jez Butterworth
#11. Happy St George's Day. Now kiss my beggar arse, you Puritans!
Jez Butterworth
#12. We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.
Neil Harbisson
#13. I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.
Jez Butterworth
#14. Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise
Tracy L. Conway
#15. If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.
Jez Butterworth
#16. The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here.
Jez Butterworth
#17. The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.
Steven Pressfield
#18. My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.
Jez Butterworth
#19. A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true.
Jez Butterworth
#20. And then I couldn't wait anymore, and my hand was on the back of her head, and then her lips on mine, the cold air gone and replaced with the warmth of her mouth, soft and sweet and hash-brown-tastic
John Green
#21. Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to.
Danny Glover
#22. Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
Sophie Swetchine
#23. I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
Jez Butterworth
#24. We don't have enough data about how lifestyle decisions impact our health.
Anne Wojcicki
#25. I'm heavy stone, me. You try and pick me up, I'll break your spine.
Jez Butterworth
#26. Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
Jez Butterworth
#27. Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.
Jez Butterworth
#28. I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
Jez Butterworth
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