Jez Butterworth Quotes

JOHNNY: Friends! Outcasts. Leeches. Undesirables. A blessing on you, and upon this beggars' banquet. This day we draw a line in the chalk, and push back against the bastard pitiless busybody council, and drive them from this place for ever. I, Rooster Byron, your merciless ruler, have decreed that today all my bounty is bestowed upon you, gratis. There will be free booze, bangers, draw, whizz and whatnot, for all the minions of my kingdom. ~ Jez Butterworth

I may bring other women here, to this place, and I may tell them I love them, and make love to them. But they will be impostors. And I will be a ghost. Because it means I will have lost you. My body, my brain, my lungs, my stomach, my guts, legs, arms will be here but I won't be. I will be out there, looking for you. And if we meet somewhere, at a restaurant, or a party and I'm with someone, I want you to know that they are by my side only because you are not. And she will be beautiful. And I will be laughing and smiling and she will be laughing and smiling, but she will be laughing at a lie. Because all I will have done to that person is lie to them. All I will do to anyone else, forever, from this moment forward, anyone who isn't you, is lie. I have no choice. ~ Jez Butterworth

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run. ~ Jez Butterworth

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience. ~ Jez Butterworth

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting. ~ Jez Butterworth

The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here. ~ Jez Butterworth

I'm heavy stone, me. You try and pick me up, I'll break your spine. ~ Jez Butterworth

Happy St George's Day. Now kiss my beggar arse, you Puritans! ~ Jez Butterworth

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks. ~ Jez Butterworth

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off. ~ Jez Butterworth

When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are. ~ Jez Butterworth

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. ~ Jez Butterworth

A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true. ~ Jez Butterworth

Communications is a wonderful thing.
It is when we presume or do not ask what another person thinks or feels that creates the problems ~ Hazel Butterworth

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right. ~ Eric Butterworth

Tom leaned in and spoke in a low, confidential voice, "Sir. You have a little something ... " He lifted his forefinger surreptitiously to his own upper lip.
Harrison brought his hand to his mustache to brush something off it, his eyes questioning. "What is it?"
"Carpet remnant?" Tom suggested. ~ Jez Morrow

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. ~ Eric Butterworth

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are. ~ Eric Butterworth

There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts. ~ Eric Butterworth

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God. ~ Eric Butterworth

Bart glared at his old friend. I'm not sure I like the new you, he said ~Take me to the blood tavern..Take me to the vampirate ship..If you don't mind me saying so, buddy, since you died, you've gotten awful bossy.What's the rush anyhow? aren't you immortal now? from where I'm sitting, you've got all the time in the world ~ Justin Somper

She sniffled. "Does he know?"
"Not a clue," Law said. "There are concrete bricks less dense than my beloved. ~ Jez Morrow

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled. ~ Eric Butterworth

Are you going to be nice to me now?"
"I'm always nice to you." Sure. Law ground his chin into Tom's groin, making
Tom jump.
"Why would I suddenly start being nice to you?" Law said. "You put out for an asshole. That guy is still here. ~ Jez Morrow

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life. ~ Eric Butterworth

It is natural to speak of hymns as "poems," indiscriminately, for they have the same structure. But a hymn is not necessarily a poem, while a poem that can be sung as a hymn is something more than a poem. Imagination makes poems; devotion makes hymns. There can be poetry without emotion, but a hymn never. A poem may argue; a hymn must not. In short to be a hymn, what is written must express spiritual feelings and desires. The music of faith, hope and charity will be somewhere in its strain. ~ Hezekiah Butterworth

We tend to think that it's up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn't ever work, and for the following reason:
If you have a hard time knowing what it is you really need, then how on earth can you logically expect someone else to know? ~ Amanda Butterworth

When expression returned, it was outrage. "Oh, that - " Wells couldn't think of anything bad enough to call
Law.
"Rat bastard is the word you're looking for," Tom filled in for him.
Wells turned and stalked back up the dock.
A gull alighted on the boards at Tom's feet. It cocked a beady eye up at him. Tom gestured with his beer
bottle as he commented to the bird, "You're right. Rat bastard is two words, isn't it. ~ Jez Morrow

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation. ~ Eric Butterworth

We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in sealed containers on the altar. Thus, it could be said that one lives by the commandments in much the same way as many persons live by a neighbor, never learning his name, let alone having any understanding communication with him. ~ Eric Butterworth

Worry robs you of happiness, it does not bring solutions only fear.
When worry shows do the 180` and look for the best case scenario, focus on that instead and invite that into reality. ~ Hazel Butterworth

The whole of God is present at every point in space at the same time. Take time to meditate on this great idea. In other words, God doesn't come and go. God doesn't capriciously move substance from God's supply "up there" to fill your needs "down here." Nor does God answer prayer in some kind of coming forth. God is always present, totally present - as a Presence. ~ Eric Butterworth

A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers. ~ Oliver Butterworth

The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. ~ Bob Butterworth

If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget. ~ Eric Butterworth

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite. ~ Eric Butterworth

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly. ~ Eric Butterworth

Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect. ~ Eric Butterworth

God can only do for you what He can do through you. ~ Eric Butterworth

cigarettes before climbing out onto the fire escape for her monthly ritual. With a shaky hand, she flicked her lighter to life and lit what she knew was a cancer stick. The alcohol and ~ Jez Strider

Don't go through life; grow through life. ~ Eric Butterworth

On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being. ~ Eric Butterworth

Your true image is not something to get; it is a reality to discover. ~ Eric Butterworth

The whole Universe is on your side. Life is forever biased on the side of healing, on the side of overcoming, on the side of success. When you get yourself centered in the Universal flow you become synchronized with this divine bias for good. ~ Eric Butterworth

It is what it is, no more, no less, it simply is. Embrace simplicity, life is easier that way. ~ Hazel Butterworth

Confused and fearful as he was, this one thing Tom knew for certain. No man ever took another man's balls in his mouth to mock him. ~ Jez Morrow

Kay, I'm sleeping with a gun-toting man I banged in an ally, hopped up on cocaine, who wants to know how to tamper with identification records without the Feds finding out. Oh yeah, and he turns into a wolf. And he's got me wrapped around his cock. ~ Jez Morrow