Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar. Moss Hart More Quotes by Moss Hart More Quotes From Moss Hart 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 studyplayreality Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does! Moss Hart dawnsuccesslife One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick. Moss Hart theatretwopeople Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction. Moss Hart playheartpeople Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession. Moss Hart hazardsvanityaccepting New York is not a city to return to in defeat. Moss Hart returncitiesnew-york 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, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness. Moss Hart boredompovertydark A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. Moss Hart humorselfmoving The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment. Moss Hart sadismtheatrekind There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next. Moss Hart actingwritingyears Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own. Moss Hart charitytheatreplay Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. Moss Hart ironylogicself
