George S Kaufman Quotes

#1. I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

Method Man

#2. KIRBY: A man can't give up his business.
GRANDPA: Why not? You've got all the money you need. You can't take it with you.

George S. Kaufman

#3. I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

George S. Kaufman

#4. When I came home after my statutory term as surgeon general, I just resumed my life here in southern Arizona. Teaching at the university; my law enforcement career. Sitting on some boards. All the things I did before.

Richard Carmona

#5. The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

George S. Kaufman

#6. There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect.

Eric Hoffer

#7. You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

George S. Kaufman

#8. Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.

George S. Kaufman

#9. There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

George S. Kaufman

#10. Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

George S. Kaufman

#11. If you do keep trying, there is no guarantee that you will succeed, but if you don't keep trying, it is absolutely guaranteed that you will not succeed.

Denny Emerson

#12. Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.

George S. Kaufman

#13. When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

George S. Kaufman

#14. You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus!

George S. Kaufman

#15. At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

George S. Kaufman

#16. God finally caught his eye.

George S. Kaufman

#17. When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

George S. Kaufman

#18. The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#19. I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

George S. Kaufman

#20. I've never had any complaints yet!

George S. Kaufman

#21. We can act instead of being acted upon.

Stephen Covey