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Top 25 Jerome Lawrence Quotes (2024 Update)

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “All motion is relative. Maybe it’s you who’ve moved away by standing still.”

2. “All motion is relative. Maybe it’s you who’ve moved away by standing still.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.”

3. “When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.”

4. “Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.”

5. “Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “Don’t have any opinions. They’re bad for business.”

6. “Don’t have any opinions. They’re bad for business.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man’s knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.”

7. “An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man’s knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.”

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

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.”

9. “Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches – its upholders as well as its defiers.”

10. “I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches – its upholders as well as its defiers.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.”

11. “It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “It’s always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there’s work to do.”

12. “It’s always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there’s work to do.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “Darwin was wrong. Man’s still an ape.”

13. “Darwin was wrong. Man’s still an ape.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “You don’t suppose this kind of thing is ever finished, do you? Tomorrow it’ll be something else-and another fella will have to stand up. And you’ve helped give him the guts to do it!”

14. “You don’t suppose this kind of thing is ever finished, do you? Tomorrow it’ll be something else-and another fella will have to stand up. And you’ve helped give him the guts to do it!”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “He that troubleth his own house... shall inherit the wind.”

15. “He that troubleth his own house... shall inherit the wind.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “If the enemy sends it’s Goliath into battle, it magnifies our cause.”

16. “If the enemy sends it’s Goliath into battle, it magnifies our cause.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “If my own brother challenged the faith of millions, I would oppose him.”

17. “If my own brother challenged the faith of millions, I would oppose him.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “It would be nice if nobody ever had to make anybody do anything.”

21. “It would be nice if nobody ever had to make anybody do anything.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “We must look hopeful.”

24. “We must look hopeful.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “All experience helps when you write.”

25. “All experience helps when you write.”

— Jerome Lawrence

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “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.”

26. “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

Jerome Lawrence Quote: “I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.”

27. “I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.”

— Jerome Lawrence

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