A biography for Jack Thornehasn’t been written yet.
“I wrote about 22 plays before 'When You Cure Me,' which was staged in 2005. I occasionally get them out and have a read, thinking maybe there's a thought or an idea or even a turn of phrase that I could use for something new. There's not. They're dire.”
“My geekness is a-quivering.”
“SNAPE: Strange, isn't it? What comes from within. You need to run. I will keep them at bay for as long as I can.SCORPIUS: Thank you for being my light in the dar”
“My wife would probably tell you I'm quite a dark person all the time!”
“I'm not very articulate. I don't have that skill.”
“I cook every night: it's part of the marriage pact.”
“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.”
“I was taken to court for trying to travel on a child ticket to Glastonbury '97. I was, and still am, 6 ft. 5.”
“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.”
“You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.”
“I'm going to feel intimidated whatever: that's just my natural state. So I may as well embrace intimidation.”