John Osborne: Work

John Osborne was English playwright. Explore interesting quotes on work.

John Osborne: 20 quotes 4 likes

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

John Osborne The Entertainer

Number 13; this, the music-hall entertainer Archie Rice's acid farewell to his audience, also appears on Osborne's gravestone https://web.archive.org/web/20071020084223/http://www.shropshiregallery.co.uk/towns/clun/IMG_0277.html.
The Entertainer (1957)

Night

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

John Osborne

Quoted in Time magazine, October 31, 1977. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,945814,00.html
Also attributed to Christopher Hampton by the Sunday Times Magazine (16 October 1977)

Dogs , Feeling , Thinking

“John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre – a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offended by Jimmy Porter, but not on account of his anger; a working-class hero is expected to be angry. What nettled them was something quite different: his self-confidence. This was no envious inferior whose insecurity they could pity.”

John Osborne

Kenneth Tynan, Tynan Right and Left (1967) p. 13
Criticism

Confidence , Self-confidence , Anger