Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh, 1910 - 1987
During performance of L'Arrestation at Athanaeum Theatre, Paris (September 1975)
Born: 23 June 1910, C
Died: 3 October 1987, Lausanne, Switzerland
Anouilh was of Basque heritage, his father a tailor and his mother a violinist. He maintained that he learned pride in craftsmanship from his father and creativity from his mother. After attending local shools, he entered the University of Paris to study law but left after less than two years when he got a job in advertising. He later credited the discipline of copy writing for developing the brevity and precision of his work which included thirty plays. His work often showed the conflict between idealism and realism, definitely a factor in Becket, which I've seen and enjoyed in the film version (1964, with Peter O'Toole as King Henry and Richard Burton as Becket).
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- A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it. permalink
Jean Anouilh - A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. permalink
Jean Anouilh - A happy love is full of quarrels, you know. permalink
Jean Anouilh - Antigone (1942) - All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. permalink
Jean Anouilh - Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. permalink
Jean Anouilh - Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. permalink
Jean Anouilh - Each of us has a day when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man. permalink
Jean Anouilh - Every man thinks god is on his side. permalink
Jean Anouilh - Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. permalink
Jean Anouilh - Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state — everything is a pretext for a good dinner. permalink
Jean Anouilh - Cécile (1954) - God is on everyone's side.... In the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. permalink
Jean Anouilh - Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? permalink
Jean Anouilh - I like reality. It tastes like bread. permalink
Jean Anouilh - It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout — not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now. permalink
Jean Anouilh - It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base. permalink
Jean Anouilh
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