Alfred Lunt
Alfred Lunt
Alfred Luntwas an American stage director and actor, often identified for a long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne. Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was named for them. Lunt was one of 20th century Broadway's leading male stars...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth12 August 1892
CountryUnited States of America
Alfred Lunt quotes about
grateful years found-someone
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?
voice trying bumps
I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.
self-esteem quality description
Charm is that extra quality that defies description.
bored i-can
I can be bought, but not bored.
self-esteem needs nourishment
There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem
art voice acting
Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.
endearing filled great integral kept people quite vaudeville
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.
eight leave miss rehearse rehearsing script stop time
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.
bump clear loud secret success
The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.