Moss Hart
Moss Hart
Moss Hartwas an American playwright and theatre director...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 October 1904
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
theatre sadism kind
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.
dream moving eye
I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.
boredom poverty kind
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.
play charity week
Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.
writing years acting
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.
reality play study
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.
self irony logic
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
self deception tools
Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.
dark boredom poverty
Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness.
moving humor self
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.
vanity hazards accepting
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.
heart play people
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.
queens kings moustache
You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.
two people theatre
One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.