List of Moss Hart Quotes

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.

Charity In The Theatre Usually Begins And Ends With People Who Have A Play Opening The Week Following One's Own. Their Unlikely Benevolence Is Not So Much A Purity Of Heart As The Knowledge That They Face A Firing Line With Rifles Aimed In Exactly The Same Direction.

Charity In The Theater Begins And Ends With Those Who Have A Play Opening Within A Week Of One's Own.

Far More Quickly Than Reason And Logic, Irony Can Penetrate Rage And Puncture Self-pity.

A Sharp Sense Of The Ironic Can Be The Equivalent Of The Faith That Moves Mountains. Far More Quicky Than Reason Or Logic, Irony Can Penetrate Rage And Puncture Self-pity.

A Play For Me Never Really Takes On An Aspect Of Reality Until It Has Left The Dryair Of The Study And Begins To Sniff The Musty Breezes Of A Bare Stage.

New York Is Not A City To Return To In Defeat.

One Begins With Two People On A Stage, And One Of Them Had Better Say Something Pretty Quick.

I Have Always Understood The Unbelieving Look In The Eyes Of Those Whom Success Touches Early - It Is A Look Half Fearful, As Though The Dream Were Still In The Process Of Being Dreamed And To Move Or To Speak Would Shatter It.

The Theatre Breeds Its Own Kind Of Cruelty, And Its Sadism Takes On A Keener Edge Since It Can Be Enjoyed Under The Innocent Guise Of Critical Judgment.

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.

Can Success Change The Human Mechanism So Completely Between One Dawn And Another? Can It Make One Feel Taller, More Alive, Handsomer, Uncommonly Gifted And Indomitably Secure With The Certainty That This Is The Way Life Will Always Be? It Can And It Does!