"Archie Rice: I'm dead behind these eyes. I'm dead, just like the whole inert, shoddy lot out there. It doesn't matter…"

"Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you."

"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs."

"John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in t…"

"Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past."

"George Dillon: [I]t's easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."

"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 wi…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"