4 Quotes & Sayings By Dale Wasserman

Dale Wasserman was born in New York City in 1926. He studied acting at the Actors Studio, and after serving a tour of duty in the Navy during World War II, he moved to California and began making a living as a film composer. In the fifties he wrote scores for more than thirty films, including Cleopatra, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and The Sound of Music. In 1966 he teamed up with lyricist Paul Williams to write the musical Mame Read more

Together they won an Academy Award for the screenplay of That's Entertainment! The film's theme song was sung by Louis Armstrong. In 1986 Wasserman died from cancer at age fifty-four.

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Too much sanity may be madness – and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! Dale Wasserman
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I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold Dale Wasserman
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I have lived nearly fifty years, and I have seen life as it is. Pain, misery, hunger .. cruelty beyond belief. I have heard the singing from taverns and the moans from bundles of filth on the streets. I have been a soldier and seen my comrades fall in battle .. or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I have held them in my arms at the final moment. These were men who saw life as it is, yet they died despairing. No glory, no gallant last words .. only their eyes filled with confusion, whimpering the question, "Why?"I do not think they asked why they were dying, but why they had lived. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams – this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness – and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! . Dale Wasserman