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In the first act, you get the...

In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Consider the public. Never fe...

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.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Acting is not a state of bein...

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.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

At twelve noon, The natives s...

At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

The theatre should be treated...

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.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Of course, the age-old tradit...

Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Thousands of people have tale...

Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

Noel Coward 156 quotes

I do not intend to let myself...

I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

AMANDA: I think very few peop...

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Success took me to her bosom ...

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Christopher Marlowe or Francis...

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out...

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

If by any chance a playwright ...

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Fifty-four years of love and t...

Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

I can take any amount of criti...

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Bed is the perfect climate....

Bed is the perfect climate.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

The Stately Homes of England, ...

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

There isn't a particle of you ...

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Though the fact that they have...

Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off the gingerbread, And certainly damps the fun Of the eldest son.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Christmas is at our throats ag...

Christmas is at our throats again.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

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