Alfred Lunt quotes:

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

I can be bought, but not bored.

There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem

There were a great many in vaudeville - people who never quite came through. But they had their place, and they filled it. They kept theatres open. Those pan-timers, those interstate-timers, those four-a-dayers, those six-a-dayers - they were an integral part of that endearing merry-go-round called vaudeville.

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me so many wonderful roles. It's a terrifying business, but it has its compensations. Where else could I have found someone who for 50 years has given me sheer enchantment?

Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed. We have a script on our hands when we go to bed. You can't come and tell us to stop rehearsing after eight hours.

I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.