Ilka Chase
Ilka Chase
Ilka Chasewas an American actress and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth8 April 1903
CountryUnited States of America
Ilka Chase quotes about
statistics doe audience
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.
rose potatoes tudors
I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.
successful opportunity play
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.
heartbreaking youth realizing
All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.
should-have attention masters
George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.
war world way
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.
travel house cost
Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.
oil skulls hands
Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.
travel regret youll-regret-it
When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.
sex hypocrisy conventions
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
country two russia
There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.
men hands names
Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
trying atheism fool
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
believe moving tears
Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.