Best Quotes by Kenneth Tynan (Top 10)
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
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A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
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The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
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Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
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Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
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Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.
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A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
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More Kenneth Tynan Quotes
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All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.
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No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
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The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
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The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.
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A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
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