Begging Quote by Moss Hart Download Open image “Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.” — Moss Hart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Begging Career Honorable Humbling India Playwriting Profession Theater
Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them. — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Theatre especially in Hindi is not enough to help an artiste in earning a livelihood. — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
“Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can if make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable.… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Any fool that had once helped you will someday make known to everyone that you were once a needy. No matter how broke you… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him,… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
“The whole four to five weeks that we've been here in this courtroom has been for one reason. And that is because Theodore Robert… — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Well it's not that I HATE them, but honestly if I saw two homeless people begging for money, one white and one black, and… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
