Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in the kitchen and winking and corpsing above the heads of our audience, the unsuspecting customers. Richard Eyre actoraudiencebackstage share on social
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself. Richard Eyre belongenvyhappiness Change image and share on social
I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways. Richard Eyre changeclimateconfident share on social
Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously. Richard Eyre balanceblamechild Change image and share on social
I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it. Richard Eyre childchronicallydeal Change image and share on social
The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness. Richard Eyre arthappinessunderstand Change image and share on social
I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb. Richard Eyre bigcliffclimb Change image and share on social
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination. Richard Eyre childhooddeepfertilise Change image and share on social
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love. Richard Eyre grandparenthoodlovepeople Change image and share on social
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like. Richard Eyre accessiblealleviatecharacter share on social
