Cyril Cusack Quotations

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

It is plain to me now that the Irish Producers, quite as strongly as the Critics, have neither sympathy nor understanding of my mode of playwriting.

I am basically a religious man.

I was rather a fat little boy.

I love the theatre and theatre people.