Jean Kerr Quotes - Page 2

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• A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

  Jean Kerr

  Jobs, Divorce, Friendly

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.33, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

  Jean Kerr

  Class, People, Said

  Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

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• Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

  Jean Kerr

  Men, Years, Two

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• I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

  Jean Kerr

  Learning, Thinking, Deals

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.31, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

  Jean Kerr

  People, Evil, Serious

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• If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

  Jean Kerr

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Loss

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Travel, Airplane

  JEAN KERR (1960). “THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES”

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• One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Memorable, Health

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

  Jean Kerr

  Mirrors, Done, Chaos

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

  Jean Kerr

  Wish, Safe, Next

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

  Jean Kerr

  Children, Tests, Firsts

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• I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

  Jean Kerr

  Shopping, Lasts, Elevators

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

  Jean Kerr

  Phones, Numbers, Long

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

  Jean Kerr

  Depressing, Mistake, Law

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

  Jean Kerr

  Drinking, Want, Versions

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

  Jean Kerr

  Morning, Mean, Voice

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.66, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

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  Grandma, Grandmother, Thinking

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• Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

  Jean Kerr

  Cracks, Toys, Tough

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• It takes at least one to make a marriage.

  Jean Kerr

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• ... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

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  Eye, Wrinkles, Mouths

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• I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.

  Jean Kerr

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.

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  Horse, Way, Toys

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• I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.

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  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.57, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

  Jean Kerr

  Character, Play, People

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning

  Jean Kerr

  Morning, Stars, Lying

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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