Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellmanwas an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She famously was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activitiesat the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a precipitous decline in her income during which time she had to work outside her chosen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth20 June 1905
CountryUnited States of America
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking ...
I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction there. When things go well in production, on opening there's no nicer feeling in the world-what could be nicer than watching an audience respond? You can't that from a book. It's a fine feeling to walk into the theater and see living people respond to something you've done.
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
You lose your manners when you're poor.
Writers talk too much.
Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair.
How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.