Who said “It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on…”?

“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”

“The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.”

“The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.”

“The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.”

“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.”

“I'm as pure as the driven slush.”

“I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”

“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”

“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.”

“Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, ''I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.''”

“No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.”