“I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.” CharacterAudienceMissingTheaterResponseCurtainsArcs Author:David Anders
“Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.” IfsMayPersonsStageTheaterRingsCharmingCurtainsOphelia Author:Mrs. Patrick Campbell
“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.” ArtistFallActorsHoursMemoriesSilenceDarknessStageProduceDivinePoetMusicianEvidenceTheaterMissionsPainterCurtainsSculptors Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman
“I never met my theater fans. I'm out the stage door five minutes after the curtain goes up. So that's it. I don't even know who comes, but thank God they do come. I can't tell. I keep my head down. I don't meet them. The fans from "Harry Potter" are kids who stop me in the street. I love that. That's terrific. I was amazed how many do.” KnowsI CanKidsFiveDoorsFansStreetsMinutesStageMetsTheaterThank GodHarry PotterAmazedCurtainsFive MinutesTerrificPotters Author:Michael Gambon
“Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is. They are curious about each other and they can understand each other without being fed information. Why should it be different in cinema?” PeopleIfsShouldLooksDifferentBehindsInformationCoupleTheaterNeighborCuriousCinemaFedsOccupationCurtainsSibling Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager. I always loved movies but they seemed too complicated until I got a job as an assistant on a movie-of-the-week and the technical process became demystified, like peeking behind a magician's curtain. Not long after that I switched to movies and never looked back.” WorldLongJobsProcessBehindsWeekGrewDadDirectorsGrew UpTheaterMy DadComplicatedTheatreTeenagerCurtainsMagicianAssistantsProminentTorontoPeekingTheatre Directors Author:Ed Gass-Donnelly
“Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if it were a Pavlovian thing. There's a little action that happens. And that there's always a little pump of adrenaline that happens. But that pump is different when you're lifting a page as if it was a curtain in a theater to show you another thing.” IfsLittlesBookDifferentShowsHappensActionReadingPagesTheaterButtonsCurtainsLiftingAdrenalinePumpsKindlesIpads Author:Art Spiegelman
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” WayLongMovingWallIllusionTheaterTablesExpensiveChairsCurtainsBricksProfitableSceneryBrick WallIllusion Of FreedomTables And Chairs Author:Frank Zappa
“...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.” IfsMovingNextBehindsTheaterCurtains Book:Les Misérables Source: Les Misérables
“When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.” FirstsBookShowsTheaterCurtains Book:Inkheart Source: Inkheart
“Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that Apollo had worked some medical magic on him. "Rachel may use a guest room in the Big House for now, until we give the matter more thought." "I'm thinking a cave in the hills," Apollo mused. "With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with a game room and one of those home theater systems.” ThinkingGivingMayMatterUseHomeBigsGamesHouseRoomsMagicTheaterMedicalMysteriousHillsGuestsCavesCurtainsPurpleApolloTorchesEntrancesPadsOraclesAtticsBetter NowBig HousesRachel Elizabeth Dare Author:Rick Riordan
“When you've always worked hard in the theatre, you find that, when you stop playing, at the end of a run, the evenings seem very long indeed. You have to find something to keep yourself occupied with because you're so used to gearing yourself up to that eight o'clock curtain, but to find any kind of real, absorbing alternative is impossible. Nobody is as interesting to spend an evening with as a really good part.” KindLongArtEndsHardSeemsRunningUsedArtistInterestingImpossibleTheaterEveningAlternativesClockCurtainsAbsorbing Author:Rex Harrison
“Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.” WellsTwoPlayCharacterLightTodayHoursTheaterDown AndCurtainsLive For TodayTwo Of Us Author:Eli Wallach
“Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time available. I think that makes a huge difference. I think he instinctively knows how to make films and all the different ways that you can make stuff. He's very gadget-wise, and he's very smart about all the different things that are available to a filmmaker nowadays, and he makes very good use of them. He has a theater in his house, for God's sake. It has proper curtains on it and everything. It's pretty wild.” ThinkingKnowsWayWellsDifferentPlayGodUseFilmHouseStuffDifferencesKnow HowWiseHugeSmartBiggerTheaterVery GoodSakeAvailableDifferent WaysFilmmakerDifferent ThingsMore TimeCurtainsCircusGadgetsFinancingVery Smart Author:Michael Madsen