Novello Quotes

#1. I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.

John Gielgud

#2. The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

Ivor Novello

#3. You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

Ivor Novello

#4. I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's.

Don Novello

#5. I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you succeed, don't forget the responsibility of making somebody else succeed with you.

Antonia Novello

#6. A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

Ivor Novello

#7. After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

Ivor Novello

#8. Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

Don Novello

#9. British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

Ivor Novello

#10. Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

Ivor Novello

#11. I want to be able to look back someday and say, "I did make a difference." Whether is was to open the minds of people to think that a woman can do a good job, or whether it's the fact that so many kids out there think that they could be like me.

Antonia Novello

#12. I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Ivor Novello

#13. There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

Don Novello

#14. The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Ivor Novello

#15. There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

Ivor Novello

#16. It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

Ivor Novello

#17. We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

Ivor Novello

#18. I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.

Don Novello

#19. There's something Vichy about the French.

Ivor Novello

#20. Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

Ivor Novello

#21. I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Don Novello

#22. The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

Ivor Novello

#23. The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.

Ivor Novello

#24. Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

Ivor Novello

#25. There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.

Ivor Novello

#26. I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?

Don Novello

#27. When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Ivor Novello

#28. The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

Ivor Novello

#29. Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

Ivor Novello

#30. I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

Don Novello

#31. A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.

Ivor Novello

#32. Love-making is an art which must be studied.

Ivor Novello

#33. Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

Ivor Novello

#34. The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

Ivor Novello