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Janet Suzman
14 quotes
“Any government would be really embarrassed to ban Shakespeare.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The apartheid government was frightened of ridicule. Everyone is frightened of laughter.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Say no moor: Dame Janet Suzman on why South Africa’s apartheid-era censors wouldn’t dare touch Othello Sage Journals (5 April 2016)
“Theatre is a white invention, a European invention, and white people go to it. It's in their DNA. It starts with Shakespeare.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dame Janet Suzman downplays 'white culture' theatre comments BBC (9 December 2014)
“Life and art get mixed up sometimes – it's what actors draw on.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My sensitivity to prejudice is high because I was brought up in South Africa. My awareness of all this crap came earlier, and it's stayed with me, and it's why I'm militantly liberal.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I remember being absolutely shocked in Australia at the absence of black people.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only times I saw black people were once in Adelaide and once at the other end of the continent, in both cases looking desperate on the street, sitting in huddles drinking beer. I realised what Australians had done to their indigenous population, to their other: they'd disappeared them.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In South Africa we were criminal, beastly, vile and disgusting, but we didn't commit genocide.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't envy something you can't be, can you? You sat and admired what was emerging.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The whole purpose of an actor's life is to find great writing, and when it comes along you leap on it like a puppy on a slipper. You're avid – greedy – hungry – for great gobbets of good writing. That's all we live for.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I stepped back from acting because I was bringing up a child. You can't do both.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's exactly at the moment that they want you most – at the end of the day when it's bathtime, storytime, bedtime – that's when you're walking out the door. I couldn't bear that brave little look as he said, 'Goodbye'. So I thought Josh is more important than a play.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature has a way of dealing with your brain when you have a child – it turns it to porridge.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You realise retrospectively mother nature has made you absolutely focused and cow-like. Then you realise your child is infinitely cleverer than you will ever be, and wittier and funnier, and you like being in its company and so you think, 'I haven't done a bad job, really.”
Janet Suzman (born 1939) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman The Guardian (20 August 2011)