One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends. Moss Hart More Quotes by Moss Hart More Quotes From Moss Hart All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'. Moss Hart made said mistake The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise. Moss Hart hatred self promise I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no. Moss Hart different reason said The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from. Moss Hart caring cities dream So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. Moss Hart hours hearing morning How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to them? It's only a handful of the lucky ones that can look back and say that they even came close. Moss Hart lucky would-be looks I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them. Moss Hart opportunity time thinking A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern. Moss Hart moral money may Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx. Moss Hart rich poor people Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody's century, when people all over the world--free people--found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning. Moss Hart men peace people There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure. Moss Hart hollywood matter earthquakes Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India. Moss Hart india wonder lost 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. Moss Hart boredom poverty kind You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache. Moss Hart moustache queens kings Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female. Moss Hart female unhappy men 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. Moss Hart theater theatre behavior There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire. Moss Hart wire piano family Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession. Moss Hart humbling theater india 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. Moss Hart eye dream moving 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. Moss Hart study play reality
