All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.
George Jean NathanPolitics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
George Jean NathanLike everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
George Jean NathanThere is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.
George Jean Nathan