Odets Quotes & Sayings

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. — Clifford Odets

American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that. — Emilia Clarke

You make me feel too human, Joe. All I want is peace and quiet, not love. I'm a tired old lady, Joe, and I don't mind being what you call "half dead." In fact it's what I like. The twice I was in love I took an awful beating and I don't want it again! I want you to stop it! Don't devil me, Joe. I beg you, don't devil me ... — Clifford Odets

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. — Clifford Odets

Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries. — Clifford Odets

But I did it! That's the thing - I did it! What will my father say when he hears I murdered a man? Lorna, I see what I did. I murdered myself, too! I've been running around in circles. Now I'm smashed! — Clifford Odets

Sex is the poor man's polo. — Clifford Odets

One of these was Harry Hay, a young actor and communist who had been performing in Clifford Odets' play on unionization, Waiting for Lefty, at the Hollywood Guild Theatre. Hay would later become father of the gay rights movement in America, but he was hired to play the organ for the OTO's Gnostic Mass, having been drawn to the temple through his friendship with Regina Kahl. — George Pendle

I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, i remember Clifford Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears. — Anna Held

There are 43,000 minutes in a month - can't you give me five? — Clifford Odets

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry - we're all out of revenge today! — Clifford Odets

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest. — Keegan Allen

Sex - the poor man's polo. — Clifford Odets

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. — Clifford Odets

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise. — Clifford Odets

I feel like the wrath of God. You like that boy, don't you? I love him, Tom. — Clifford Odets

You 're too sufficient by yourself ... too inside yourself — Clifford Odets

Mr President, the president is dead. — Clifford Odets

It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles. — Clifford Odets

It seems to happen sudden - a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself - no energy wasted ... he slips and slides - he travels with the punch ... Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up. — Clifford Odets

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. — Clifford Odets