Ivor Novello

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.