Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Alfred Lunt

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American director Alfred Lunt.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Alfred David Lunt was an American actor and director, best known for his long stage partnership with his wife, Lynn Fontanne, from the 1920s to 1960, co-starring in Broadway and West End productions. After their marriage, they nearly always appeared together. They became known as "the Lunts" and were celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic.

American - Director | August 12, 1892 - August 3, 1977

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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.

Alfred Lunt

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.

Alfred Lunt

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

Alfred Lunt

I can be bought, but not bored.

Alfred Lunt

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?

Alfred Lunt

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

Alfred Lunt

Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

Alfred Lunt

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

Alfred Lunt

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

Alfred Lunt