Quotations

Quotable Reviews

by Matt Kizer

    • “I’ve knocked everything in this show except the chorus girls’ knees, and there God anticipated me.”

      – George Jean Nathan on a musical in the 1920s.

    • “It is longeth and it stinketh.”

      – Caroline Alice Lejeune on Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, (1939).

    • “A bad play saved by a bad performance.”

      – George S. Kaufman regarding Gertrude Lawrence in Skylark, (1939).

Quotable

by Matt Kizer

    • Orson_WellesI want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning:  when it becomes a social act.

      – Orson Welles

    • 460px-Walter_Winchell_1960Broadway is a main artery of New York life – the hardened artery.

      – Walter Winchell

Quotable

by Matt Kizer

  • robert_wilson-croppedTo me, what is important in the theater is that we don’t want to make a conclusion. We don’t want to make a statement, don’t want to say what something is. We want to ask, ‘What is it?’

    – Robert Wilson

  • Tallulah_Bankhead_1941If you really want to help the American theater, don’t be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

    – Tallulah Bankhead