Jerome Lawrence Quotes

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• Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the…
• Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.
• When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.
• Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.
• Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend…
• Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.
• The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
• You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why…
• Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape
• I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
• I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law,…
• All experience helps when you write.
• The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
• In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
• If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it…
• A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the…
• It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
• The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was…
• An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to…
• All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

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