Peter Shaffer Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.”

“I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.”

“I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.”

“In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists.”

“Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.”

“My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.”

“There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.”

“You can't always let people do their own thing.”

“A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.”

“I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.”