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8 quotes by Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American actress, author and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Tony Award winner and two-time Emmy Award winner. Alexander made her Broadway debut in 1968 in The Great White Hope and won the 1969 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Other Broadway credits include, 6 Rms Riv Vu (1972), The Night of the Iguana (1988), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993) and Honour...
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What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

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I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.

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I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

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No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

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Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

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Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

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All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or... →

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Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial... →

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