Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
ALAN JAY LERNERJust look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
-
-
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
Men die but an idea does not.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
England still will be here without you.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
ALAN JAY LERNER -
The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.
ALAN JAY LERNER -
Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can’t a woman be like that?
ALAN JAY LERNER