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It's no use to go and take cou...

It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinee in Hull - it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction. Come to think of it, I never did play to a good matinee in Hull . . .

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Having to read footnotes resem...

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

It's like this, dear boy, the ...

It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Marriage is the aftermath of l...

Marriage is the aftermath of love.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Certain women should be struck...

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Labour leaders lead us all, th...

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

I will accept anything in the ...

I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

I can't sing, but I know how t...

I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

I'm an enormously talented man...

I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not..

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

Criticism and Bolshevism have ...

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Conceit is an outward manifest...

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

It is my considered opinion th...

It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Television is for appearing on...

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Star quality: I don't know wha...

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Mona Lisa looks as if she has ...

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Never trust a man with short l...

Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

I'm over-educated in the thing...

I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

Noel Coward 156 quotes

Trust your instincts. If you h...

Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

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

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....