Theatrical Producer

🇺🇸Ed Wynn

Entertainment

1886–1966

"A comedian is not a man who opens a funny door. He opens a door funny."

🇺🇸Orson Welles

Entertainment

1915–1985

"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."

🇺🇸Whoopi Goldberg

Entertainment

b. 1955

"I know it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape."

Oliver Goldsmith

Literature

1728–1774

"I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon."

🇨🇦Neve Campbell

Entertainment

b. 1973

"I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes."

"Believe it or not, it’s easier for me nowadays to be outside this country than in this country, because when I go outside I’m in hotels with elevators and services of all kinds, and it’s not such a hardship."

David Garrick

Entertainment

1717–1779

"Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves."

🇬🇧Angelique Rockas

Entertainment

b. 1951

"As a little girl my mother used to take me with her to her fittings with her very expensive seamstress. I was dazzled by the beauty of the fabrics and the whole procedure. I still remember the feel of expensive taffeta."

"Language shifts with each character and with time. We were so close that it was difficult to see the end result. A part of it was looking at sound, how sound and language traveled with people through time."

🇺🇸Katori Hall

Literature

b. 1981

"I always say that I’m a writer who writes more from place than race."