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“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
Source : "Putting some muscle into the much" by Paula Span, www.washingtonpost.com. May 28, 1995. 
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“There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.”
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“We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference.”
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“But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home ...”
Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.172, Penguin
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“Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.”
Source : Israel Zangwill (1898). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”
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“The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7”
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“I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.”
Source : "Dr. Joycelyn Elders Is So Fucking Cool" by Kate Harding, June 03, 2007.
