Explore Quotes by Jean Kerr

I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.

'Lunch Hour' is suitable for a teenager.

It's easier to write about what you know. I wouldn't write about a Wall Street broker, for example.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs.

Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.

I'm congenitally vague.

Affairs have been going on since Tolstoy.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.