Dressing Rooms Quotes

• I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.

  Jennifer Garner

  Team, Feelings, Together

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• Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Strong, Home, Rehearsal

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.2

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• I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

  Joan Collins

  Mean, Rooms, Cashmere

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• I don't really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it's safe, and the guys don't go to the papers and tell them what I've done.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Laughing, Guy, Safe

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.

  Carol Channing

  Two, Lucky, World

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• If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

  Harry S. Truman

  Wisdom, Adversity, Gossip

  Mr Citizen (1960) ch. 15 (see also Harry Vaughan 22.6)

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• There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.

  Carrie Snodgress

  Tables, Rooms, Notes

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• But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

  Alan Vega

  Space, Guy, Cash

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• I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.

  Norm Crosby

  Redneck, Thinking, Las Vegas

  Interview with Elvis Australia, www.elvis.com.au. February 15, 2005.

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• If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen

  Terry Venables

  Soccer, Football, Kitchen

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• Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Player, Guy

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• Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

  William Shatner

  Jobs, Men, Doe

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• We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.

  Ray Manzarek

  Airplane, Grace, Hug

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• You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

  Larry Hagman

  Dream, Clothes, Years

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• I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I've got loads of love to give.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Team, Giving, Rooms

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic". Interview with Ian Ridley, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Football, Player

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• You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

  Gerry Cooney

  Real, Men, Hiking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

  Eva Gabor

  Stars, Real, Doors

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• I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Running, Long, Giving

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• In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Shoes, Boots, Rooms

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• I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.

  Burt Ward

  Morning, Mean, Rooms

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• I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

  Dick York

  Time, Sleep, Giving

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• I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Sitting, Rooms, Theater

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• When actors aren't filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Relax, Actors, Rooms

  "Interview: Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson & Rupert Grint (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)". Interview with Dan Whitehead, trouble.city. October 26, 2005.

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