Godot Quotes - Page 2

• Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

  Samuel Beckett

  Fate, Too Late, Chance

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

  Samuel Beckett

  Waiting For Godot, Speak, Stay With Me

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.412, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science.

  Elliott Sober

  Philosophy, Waiting, Literature

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.

  Barney Rosset

  Sex, Waiting, Example

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• As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.

  Nathan Lane

  Kids, Strangeness

  "Laughter in the Dark". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com. April 19, 2009.

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• Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Government, Waiting, Turns

  RaiNews24, November 16, 2007.

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• I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.

  Patrick Stewart

  Years, Play, Waiting

  "Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot". Interview with Dominic Cavendish, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.

  Sam Waterston

  Communication, Inspiration, Yale

  "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

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• We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Waiting, Different, St Benedict

  Alasdair MacIntyre (1981). “After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

  Michel Foucault

  Eye, Waiting, Generations

  Michel Foucault (2000). “Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel”, p.176, A&C Black

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