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The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

Dichotomy = operation performed on lesbians to make them normal.

I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.