Character Quote by Eli Wallach

There's nothing like an opening night or like the curtain going up and having a full house, but also having weeks and weeks to…

— Aidan Turner

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up.…

— Robert Caro

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down…

— Sir Arthur Sullivan

Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every…

— Howard Jacobson

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

— Groucho Marx

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

— David Ives

When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be…

— John Lasseter

I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know…

— Mireille Mathieu

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle…

— Anton Chekhov

It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can…

— Twyla Tharp

The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“We are all fragments of the Source that have chosen to have an experience outside of Source and play different roles in a theatrical…

— Jasun Ether