A biography for Alan Jay Lernerhasn’t been written yet.
“Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.”
“With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!”
“An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.”
“A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.”
“You write a hit the same way you write a flop.”
“It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.”
“Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.”
“Why can't a woman be more like a man?”
“Men die but an idea does not.”