List of Jerome Lawrence Quotes

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Jerome Lawrence
Total Quotes 21
If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. make it better than the play. have a reason for making it sing.
Play Musical Cartoon
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if i'm bored with a play, if i'm revolted by a play on stage, with the broadway prices, especially today, i'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
Blessing Play Boredom
All experience helps when you write.
Writing Helping
Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.
Play Hell Stealing
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
Peers Television Demand
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. and the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!
Men Snakes Ideas
Don't have any opinions. they're bad for business.
Opinion
Cynical? thats my fascination. i do hateful things, for which people love me, and lovable things for which they hate me. i am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; i am admired for my detestability. i am both poles and the equator, with no temperate zones between.
Hate People Cynical
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
Writing Soul Mind
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of inherit the wind because it doesn't sing. it's an intellectual play.
Wind Play Intellectual
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
Writing Thinking Passionate
Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.
Emptiness Inherit The Wind Overzealous
  • Born: July 14, 1915
  • Died: February 29, 2004
  • Occupation: Playwright
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