Third Act Quotes

14 quotes by 14 authors

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. — Truman Capote
I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy,… — Sherry Lansing
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude… — Isaac Babel
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act. — Billy Wilder
Harrison is very much part of this one, but really itâ€™s about finding him; he comes in in the third act. — Ridley Scott
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the… — Ralph Fiennes
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one. — Gary Ackerman
There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing. — Jeff Daniels
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you… — Max Beerbohm
It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act.… — Harold Ramis
'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act… — Jason Reitman
The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third… — Stephen J. Cannell
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in… — Lester B. Pearson
There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and… — Timothy West

Who Wrote These Third Act Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 14 Third Act Quotes as follows: