WIST Quotations

Chase, Ilka -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

You can always spot a well-informed man — his views are the same as yours.

Ilka Chase (1905-1978) American actress, writer
(Attributed)

Chase, Ilka -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

ANONYMOUS ACTRESS: I enjoyed your book. Who wrote it for you?
CHASE: Darling, I’m so glad you liked it. Who read it to you?

Ilka Chase (1905-1978) American actress, writer
(Attributed)

Regarding her autobiography, Past Imperfect (1942)

Chase, Ilka -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Ilka Chase (1905-1978) American actress, writer
(Attributed)

quoted in Cooper & Hartman, "Mrs. Crankhurst" (1980); http://www.bartleby.com/66/29/11429.html

Chase, Ilka -- Past Imperfect (1942)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.

Ilka Chase (1905-1978) American actress, writer
Past Imperfect (1942)

Chase, Ilka -- Past Imperfect (1942)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

Ilka Chase (1905-1978) American actress, writer
Past Imperfect (1942)