A play is a passion.
About Jerome Lawrence
Jerome Lawrencewas an American playwright and author. After graduating from the Ohio State University in 1937 and the University of California, Los Angeles in 1939, Lawrence partnered with Robert Edwin Lee to help create Armed Forces Radio while serving together in the U.S. Army during World War II. The two built a partnership over their lifetimes, and continued to collaborate on screenplays and musicals until Lee’s death in 1994.
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You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater – why the better it is for all of us.
American playwright (1915-2004)
A play is a passion.
American playwright (1915-2004)
If you’re going to make a musical, don’t cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.
American playwright (1915-2004)
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
American playwright (1915-2004)
All experience helps when you write.
American playwright (1915-2004)
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
American playwright (1915-2004)
The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.
American playwright (1915-2004)
It’s always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there’s work to do.
American playwright (1915-2004)
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that’s burning to be written.
American playwright (1915-2004)
The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
American playwright (1915-2004)
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn’t sing. It’s an intellectual play.
American playwright (1915-2004)
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I’m bored with a play, if I’m revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I’m going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
American playwright (1915-2004)