82 Quotes by George Jean Nathan

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.