Noel Coward
Noel Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Cowardwas an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth16 December 1899
acting theatre states
Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.
eight mad theatre
Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.
house political theatre
The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.
theatre shows
She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.
moving home theatre
I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.
laughing theatre cry
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.
known
I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known at all
pleasure rather sand
There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.
audience love mind somebody work
Put somebody you love in the audience in your mind and work for them,
appearing convinced looking television time
Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on - not for looking at
began believe life since talent
I believe that since my life began / The most I've had is just / A talent to amuse.
bump learn lines
Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.
issue personal
We're Regency Rakes / And each of us makes / A personal issue / Of adipose tissue.
dance leave tomorrow
Dance, dance, dance little lady, / Leave tomorrow behind.