Elmer Rice Quotes

United States, Playwright
September 28, 1892 – May, 8, 1967.

Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, September 28, 1892 – May 8, 1967) was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays The Adding Machine (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, Street Scene (1929).

Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

Elmer Rice
- Art
- Reality
- Art Is
Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

Elmer Rice
- Men
- Women
- High

You can have too much champagne to drink but you can never have enough.

Elmer Rice
- Enough
- Drink
- Champagne
If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.

Elmer Rice
- Nature
- Body
- Ifs
When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.

Elmer Rice