
John Osborne citáty
John Osborne
Datum narození: 12. prosinec 1929
Datum úmrtí: 24. prosinec 1994
Další jména: John James Osborne
John James Osborne [Ozbrn] byl anglický dramatik, představitel tzv. Rozhněvaných mladých mužů
Citáty John Osborne

„Nikdy nevěř zrcadlům, ani novinám.“
[(en) Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.]
Zdroj: Kalendář VZP 2003
„Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.“
— John Osborne, Look Back in Anger
Zdroj: Look Back in Anger
„Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.“
Quoted in Time magazine, October 31, 1977. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,945814,00.html
Also attributed to Christopher Hampton by the Sunday Times Magazine (16 October 1977)
„Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.“
— John Osborne, The Entertainer
Number 7; said to have been an old joke in the music-halls at the time the play was written.
The Entertainer (1957)
„This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death.“
"A Letter To My Fellow Countrymen", Tribune (18 August 1961)
„George Dillon: [I]t's easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.“
Epitaph for George Dillon, Act II (1957)
Co-written with Anthony Creighton.
„John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre – a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offended by Jimmy Porter, but not on account of his anger; a working-class hero is expected to be angry. What nettled them was something quite different: his self-confidence. This was no envious inferior whose insecurity they could pity.“
Kenneth Tynan, Tynan Right and Left (1967) p. 13
Criticism
„Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.“
— John Osborne, Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger, Act II, sc. I (1956)
„Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.“
— John Osborne, The Entertainer
Number 13; this, the music-hall entertainer Archie Rice's acid farewell to his audience, also appears on Osborne's gravestone https://web.archive.org/web/20071020084223/http://www.shropshiregallery.co.uk/towns/clun/IMG_0277.html.
The Entertainer (1957)
