Kenneth Tynan Quotes
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Welles is at once as abnormal and as natural as Niagara Falls.
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Every speech, for Olivier, is like a mass of marble at which the sculptor chips away until its essential form and meaning are revealed. No matter how ignoble the character he plays, the result is always noble as a work of art.
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When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.
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We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.
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A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
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In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.
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Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.
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She shows herself to the audience like the Host to the congregation.
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The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.
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Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
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Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.