Beckett Quotes

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.