Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jonathan Miller (English Stage Director)

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller (1934–2019) was a British theatre and opera director, television producer, presenter, writer, humorist, and medical doctor. He was renowned for his wide-ranging abilities; his contribution to British art, music, and literature was extensive and acclaimed in many fields.

Born in St John’s Wood, North London to a psychiatrist and a novelist, Miller studied medicine at Cambridge, qualifying as a doctor in 1959, and becoming a fellow in the history of medicine 1970–73 at London University. In 1960, as a member of the amateur theatrical club Cambridge Footlights, Miller became recognized as a comedian for directing and acting in Beyond the Fringe (1961.) He quickly moved to direct with John Osborne’s play Under Plain Cover (1962.) His first production for the British National Theatre was The Merchant of Venice (1970.)

Miller’s long list of opera productions began with Arden Must Die (1974, Sadler’s Wells) and included Così fan tutti (1995, Covent Garden and Rome) and Verdi’s Rigoletto for English National Opera (1984.) On television, he not only produced a BBC Shakespeare series but also directed and appeared in the medical series The Body in Question (1978) and Madness (1991.)

Miller is the author of such books as McLuhan (1971,) The Body in Question (1978,) and Acting in Opera (1990.) His Subsequent Performances (1986) is a stimulating exposition of his interpretations of the theatre and on directing plays and operas.

An avowed atheist, Miller wrote and presented the BBC television series A Brief History of Disbelief (2004.)

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Illness is not something a person has. It’s another way of being.
Jonathan Miller

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
Jonathan Miller
Topics: Taste, Style

Ideas are the real substance of human life. Ideas guide our actions and even control our movements. It is just as well to put them in order first and then to display their anatomy.
Jonathan Miller
Topics: Life

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
Topics: Literature, Books

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
Topics: Ideas, Control, Life

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