Hugh Leonard
  • I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

  • My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

  • My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

  • I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

  • My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.