Great Throughts Treasury

"Every artist undresses his subject whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?"

"Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space."

"It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist."

"Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual."

"Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form."

"By dint of dogged charisma, Brynner has identified himself with a role more than any other actor since Bela Lugosi hung up his fangs."