Christopher Hampton Quotes

“The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.”

Christopher Hampton

Source: Total Eclipse

“Brecht always liked people to be aware that they were in a theatre. I said to him more than once, but Brecht, what makes you think they think they're anywhere else?”

Christopher Hampton

Horváth in Tales from Hollywood (1983), scene 8

“Masturbation is the thinking man's television.”

Christopher Hampton

Jonathan, in The Philanthropist (1969)

“I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.”

Christopher Hampton

Don, in The Philanthropist (1969), scene 6

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.”

Christopher Hampton

Sunday Times Magazine (London, October 16, 1977)