Athol Fugard Quotes

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Are you really worried about your children, friend, or are you just worried about yourself and your bloody name? Wake up, man! Use that bloody book and with your pay on Friday you'll have a real chance to do something for them.

Twenty-two and no strings attached. Would like letters from men of the same age or older. My \interests are beauty contests and going out. A snap with the first letter, please.

Flicker of morbid interest.

There’s no question he’s smarter than I am, but does that give him the right to call me a name like that?

All you've got to do is stand up and walk away from it.

You were scared of the ball because it was big and hard and could hurt you, just like life can hurt you.

We need a definition of greatness, and I suppose that would be somebody who... somebody who benefited all mankind."

It was you who start me ballroom dancing.

Hally: Anyway, that’s my man of magnitude. Charles Darwin! Who’s yours?
Sam: [without hesitation] Abraham Lincoln.
Hally: I might have guessed as much. Don’t get sentimental, Sam. You’ve never been a slave, you know. And anyway, we freed your ancestors here in South Africa long before the Americans.

I’m in the business of making people realize that their opinions aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.

He certainly was trying to teach people to get the steps right.

To be one of those finalists on that floor is like... like being in a dream world in which accidents don't happen."

In fact, I was shit-scared that we were going to make fools of ourselves.

"It doesn't have to be that way. There something called progress, you know. We don't exactly burn people at the stake anymore.