It's easier to write about what you know. I wouldn't write about a Wall Street broker, for example. Jean Kerr More Quotes by Jean Kerr More Quotes From Jean Kerr I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there. Jean Kerr chaos mirrors done It takes at least one to make a marriage. Jean Kerr ... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved. Jean Kerr wrinkles eye mouths To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now. Jean Kerr alive party baby I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time. Jean Kerr civilized In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing. Jean Kerr depressing law mistake Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something. Jean Kerr accomplishing-something ships water There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people. Jean Kerr said class people I don't want to see the uncut version of anything. Jean Kerr versions drinking want When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs. Jean Kerr grandmother grandma thinking I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. Jean Kerr deals learning thinking The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats. Jean Kerr tests children firsts Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents. Jean Kerr acting ordinary people Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning Jean Kerr stars morning lying One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. Jean Kerr women health memorable I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. Jean Kerr airplane inspirational travel Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. Jean Kerr women learning memorable An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives. Jean Kerr phones numbers long You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count). Jean Kerr party three sleep I will read anything rather than work. Jean Kerr knowledge
