“... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.” MenSelfHelpingFeelingsLastsSpiritGirlActorsGivenWishBoysMissingHe ManExpressionListeningMen And WomenSeatsGesturesFellowshipGalleryBoy And Girl Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
“Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.” SuccessBoysCarCoachesSeatsParlorDamon Author:Damon Runyon
“Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!” YearsI CanSelfFeelingsLife IsBoysTakenTwentiesCome UpRadioExcuseFeel GoodSeatsAvoidingDoing GoodThrustFeeling Bad Author:Laura Schlessinger
“I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.” PeopleTryingTwoTogetherGamesTalkingBoysShotsSittingBlindTwo ThingsSeatsMailBeside YouBlind People Author:Chick Hearn
“Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.” StoriesParentBoysChildhoodMetsPerformancesBoxesWideEnormousVarietySeatsOperaSheerOrphanPubertyMelodramaSopranos Author:Daniel Handler
“I walk into office, which is the casting office for CBS in New York. Mainly what they cast out of this office was the CBS daytime shows. I go in and walk into this room which every seat is filled with young African-American boys and girls and they were in their teens. I went, "I'm in the wrong place. Why am I here? What's going on?"So I go in and meet Norman [Lear].” ShowsYoungGirlWalksRoomsBoysNew YorkOfficeFilledCastsAfrican AmericanSeatsTeensCastingBoy And GirlDaytimeLear Author:Richard Masur