Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

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All experience helps when you write.

Jerome Lawrence

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

Jerome Lawrence

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

Jerome Lawrence

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

Jerome Lawrence

A play is a passion.

Jerome Lawrence

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

Jerome Lawrence

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

Jerome Lawrence

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

Jerome Lawrence

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Jerome Lawrence

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

Jerome Lawrence

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

Jerome Lawrence

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

Jerome Lawrence

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

William Gaddis

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

James Galway

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Coco Chanel

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Al Boliska

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

George Harrison

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Isaac Asimov

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Wendell Phillips

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

Benjamin Bratt

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Viggo Mortensen

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Rumi

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Walter Annenberg

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Pappy Boyington

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Peter Straub

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Raoul Vaneigem

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Mary Renault

Jerome Lawrence

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

Linda Fiorentino

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

George Sanders

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Quentin Crisp

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Jack Kevorkian

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Anish Kapoor

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

William Weld

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Osbert Lancaster

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

Dustin Hoffman

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Gus Van Sant

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

Cecil Beaton

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Dylan Thomas

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Guy de Maupassant

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

Hedy Lamarr

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Jean Baudrillard