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19 quotes by Timothy West

This article is in a list format that may be better presented using prose. You can help by converting this article to prose, if appropriate. Editing help is available. (June 2011) Timothy West CBE West at the Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames, 15 February 2010. Born Timothy Lancaster West (1934-10-20) 20 October 1934 (age 80) Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England Education The John Lyon School Bristol Grammar School Regent Street...
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The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that... →

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Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

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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... →

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The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty... →

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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... →

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A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

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I don't believe in right-angled turning points.

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I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

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The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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