George Jean Nathan Quotes

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

I played comedies and dramas.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

If I weren't performing, there is a real chance that I would be a 'One Man, Two Guvnors' groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way.

There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

I'd love to play some kind of fop.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

There weren't any funny people in sports or the Spanish club. All the really creative, witty, funny people that made your belly hurt were in the theater program.

'Harvey' continues to be both a charming and hilarious play.

An old-codger comedy - that's what I want to do.

I like the notion of theater as recreational.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

I think Hyderabadis have the best sense of humour in the entire country and I still remember the famous plays of 'Adrak Ke Panje' by Babban Khan and 'Dhed Matwale.'

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama. It's heavy. Also, I think the humor really highlights the pathos and the struggle. You can slam it up against drama, and it makes both shine.

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.