Stage and Screen

Stage and Screen 

1. An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow —Edwin Booth
2. An actor is like a cigar; the more you puff him, the smaller he gets —Anon
3. Actors are like burglars: they always change their names for business purposes —Frank Richardson
4. An actor’s soul must be like a diamond. The more facets its got, the more shining his name —Grace Paley
5. Every film is launched like a squid in an obscuring cloud of spectacular publicity —Dudley Nichols
6. [Danny Kaye] feels about an audience the way most men feel about a date. He woos them. He wants to make them happy —Sylvia Fine, quoted in husband Kaye’s obituary, New York Times, March 4, 1987
7. The movie actor, like the sacred king of primitive tribes, is a god in captivity —Alexander Chase
8. A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don’t —Mike Nichols
9. Movie stars are like race horses. Everybody knows their name, but they have to obey the stable boys —MacDonald Harris
10. Not to go to the theater is like making one’s toilet without a mirror —Arthur Schopenhauer
11. A play, like a bill, is of no value till it is accepted —Henry Fielding
12. Prologues, like compliments, are a loss of time —David Garrick
13. Sex percolates merrily through all of the daytime soaps like grounds in a coffee pot —Carin Rubenstein, Channels Magazine, March, 1986

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14. Soap opera is like sex outside marriage: many have tried it, but most are ashamed of being caught —Peter Buckham
15. Television is like the little girl who had a little curl. When it is good, it is very, very good, and when it is bad, it is horrid —Melvin I. Cooperman, discussing quality of playwriting for stage, screen and television writers, Word Wrap (electronic bulletin board for writers), May 8, 1987
16. The theater is a communal event, like church —Marcia Norman, New York Times Book Review interview, May 24, 1987
17. Theater is like baseball; it depends on hits and runs —Anon