Curtain Call Quotes

• Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

  John Donne

  Love, Running, Fool

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

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• Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

  George M. Cohan

  Worried, Buried, Curtains

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• One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

  Clive Barnes

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

  Christopher Plummer

  Art, Fun, Suffering

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• Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars, "Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies, "Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call, that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Morning, Stars, Children

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• My parents took me to shows starting when I was a very little kid. I remember seeing Henry IV at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC and our neighbor, who was playing Banquo, winked at me during the curtain call. I remember thinking "he can SEE ME?!" I was hooked from then. I wanted to be part of the place where you can escape the world, and also wink at it.

  Nick Blaemire

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

  John Donne

  Love, Time, Rags

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

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• My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.

  Sara Bareilles

  Night, Careers, Floating

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride, Call countryants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

  John Donne

  Running, Time, Kings

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

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• Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand in the wings and watch other people take the curtain calls while his own contributions get lost in the shuffle.

  Rod Serling

  Wings, People, Forever

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• I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

  James Stewart

  People, Acting, Firsts

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• I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls.” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.”

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Girl, Drama, School

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• I remember when I was doing The Crucible on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, Lets make sure we remember this.

  John Benjamin Hickey

  Night, Crucible, Broadway

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