The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.