21 Quotes by Ivor Novello
- After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
- A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
- A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
- The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
- Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
- Love-making is an art which must be studied.
- It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.
- I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
- Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.
- British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
- Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.
- The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.
- You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.
- There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
- There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
- There's something Vichy about the French.
- Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
- We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
- When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.
- The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
- The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
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