Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. Noel Coward More Quotes by Noel Coward More Quotes From Noel Coward You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday. Noel Coward friday motivation funny Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it. Noel Coward friday motivation work In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few. Noel Coward play laughing believe Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. Noel Coward extraordinary music work Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be. Noel Coward mona-lisa sick looks I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. Noel Coward astrology stars believe My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. Noel Coward body literature mind If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia. Noel Coward peter florence arabia To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway. Noel Coward love-you wonderful people People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it. Noel Coward humorous funny people I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different. Noel Coward know-how different knows I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. Noel Coward elephants memories facts I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second. Noel Coward literature class firsts Bed is the perfect climate. Noel Coward climate bed perfect It's never too early for a cocktail. Noel Coward cocktails Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea? Noel Coward sweet-tea tea country I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise. Noel Coward unqualified criticism long How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini? Noel Coward dry cooking food An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire. Noel Coward eye heart children It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own. Noel Coward my-own eye acceptance
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