"You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny."

--

Elaine Stritch

#Theatre Quotes #Tragic Quotes

“It's very difficult to stay in one's heart as it keeps beating”
“Live your dream. Know what you want to do and never take no for an answer.”
“I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.”
“To know one's Self is to be blissful always.”
“During World War I the Canadians were the shock troops. In many historical cases, Canadians have been very proficient at killing, and doing what we have to in order to survive. But no one wants to acknowledge that fact.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?”

Source : Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”
“Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.”
“There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them back even if you're doing top-notch material. If you didn't win them right when you walked out there, it's tough.”

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