Words matter. These are the best Jack Thorne Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I find small talk exhausting, and I don’t like myself when I’m around people.
It’s not that I don’t like other people – I do. I just don’t like me.
When I was in my early twenties, I spent six months bedbound with a condition called Cholinergic Urticaria that basically means I’m allergic to heat, including my own body. It was bad.
I tended to be the nerdy kid – stood at the back, watching other people having fun – I wasn’t always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.
I don’t really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.
I’m a constant idiot in conversation – I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.
They’re odd beasts, musicals, but what I like about them is the way they allow windows into people’s lives. When people sing, you get an opportunity to see a vulnerability, a glimpse of a life in a messed-up head.
Hanging out with Pierce Brosnan on the set of ‘A Long Way Down’ was quite an extraordinary thing to do. The interesting thing is, he never behaves like a star. He’s a really nice man.
At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn’t do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, ‘Born on the Fourth of July’ way. They were generally – and I hope this doesn’t offend them – the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn’t always find it.
The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you’re starting to see things being made flesh, and you’re able to respond to that flesh, that’s really exciting.
I was taken to court for trying to travel on a child ticket to Glastonbury ’97. I was, and still am, 6 ft. 5.
I really do love working. There’s no day where I don’t want to write.
When you write a script, you hope that people will give it life beyond the script.
The thing about having a very young audience in the theatre is that sometimes they laugh at the bullying scenes. It’s really interesting, what that means. It still confuses me slightly, you know; someone’s getting quite brutally bullied on stage and people are laughing. I think it’s very hard being young.
I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me – that’s my big ambition.
I’m not very articulate. I don’t have that skill.
I’ve just had a little boy, and my wife and I called him Elliott because ‘E.T.’ sort of saved my life because that film is absolutely about something being out there that’s greater than yourself.
My wife would probably tell you I’m quite a dark person all the time!
Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don’t think this is a bad thing.
I cook every night: it’s part of the marriage pact.
Obama said that his performance at bowling was so bad ‘it was like the Special Olympics or something.’ Disability, by Obama’s definition, was about difference and failure.
I struggle quite a lot in rehearsals, partly because I’m shy, partly because I still don’t really understand the work that actors and directors do. I love the magic at the end, but the getting there – the wrong turns that are necessary to make something work – I find slightly beguiling and worrying.
