Am in the rear of the theater watching your performance. Wish you were here.
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
By the time a writer discovers he has no talent for literature, he is too successful to give it up.
Epitaph for a dead waiter- God finally caught his eye.
Everything I've ever said will be credited to Dorothy Parker.
I did not like it, but perhaps this judgment is unfair. I saw it under adverse conditions- the curtain was up.
I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.
I understand your new play is full of single entendres.
Madam, don't you have any unexpressed thoughts?
Odets, where is thy sting?
Over my dead body. (When asked to suggest his own epitaph.)
Posterity is just around the corner.
Satire is what closes on Saturday night.
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
The trouble with Shakespeare is that you never get to sit down unless you're a king.
There was laughter at the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.
They're not understudies, they're overstudies.
Things are so bad on Broadway today an actor is lucky to be miscast.
We learned that when an audience does not laugh at a line at which they're supposed to laugh, then the thing to do was to take out that line and get a funnier line. So help me, we didn't know that before. I always thought it was the audience's fault, or when the show got to New York they'd laugh.
When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.
When things go a little bad nowadays, you go out, get yourself an-ism and you're in business.
You're a birdbrain, and I mean that as an insult to birds.
Your eyes shine like the pants of a blue serge suit.
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