Alan Jay Lerner Quotes


Alan Jay Lerner

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

An Englishman`s way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Why can`t a woman be more like a man?

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn`t sleep on Monday nights.

Back home everyone said I didn`t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

Men die but an idea does not.

With a little bit of luck, you`ll never work!

It`s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.






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Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Alan Jay Lerner
Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Alan Jay Lerner
Lerner and Loewe musicals
Alan Jay Lerner
Brigadoon (1954)
Camelot (1967)
Gigi (1958)
Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) 1950–1959
Alan Jay Lerner
1985 Kennedy Center Honorees
Alan Jay Lerner