I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.