Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. – Anita Loos
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants — more than anything else — to become rich. As long as they dont have the money, itll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, theyll understand how important other things are — and have always been. – Anita Loos
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber
The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early