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It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about? ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#after #costumes #dress #earth #frivolous

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#alternative #get #now #people #represented

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#does #interesting #literature #made #makes

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#auditorium #austere #back #call #cast

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#being #could #doing #epitome #find

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#films #get #gives #great #great way

I'm glad I don't live in Primrose Hill any more. I couldn't even walk through the park. You never invite that kind of attention. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#attention #even #glad #hill #i

New York and LA are both great places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live in either of them now. I find New York extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is quite a nice place. But there's no hustle and bustle, no street life. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#bustle #claustrophobic #dirty #either #extremely

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling. ↗

— Keith Miller

#different #give #jobs #lot #need

Some kids are good at math, some kids can run, and acting was an interest of mine. Because I knew you could do it for a living I decided, that's what I'm going to do. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#because #could #decided #going #good