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
time opportunity thinking
I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.
queens kings moustache
You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.
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.
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.
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.
mistake said made
All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.
money may moral
A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.
peace men people
Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody's century, when people all over the world--free people--found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.
theatre behavior theater
The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.
earthquakes hollywood matter
There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.