#curtain

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#author #belong #belongs #betray #ceases

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#any #comes #curtain #disaster #down

I had a jeep made up for Michael, and he would take it on tour, and he would hide behind it, like a curtain. ↗

— Rick Dees

#curtain #had #hide #i #like

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite. ↗

— Lesley-Anne Down

#her #just #like #ludicrous #open

At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start. ↗

— Frank Cady

#bald #ball #because #character #cue

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#deep #dim #doors #drawn #fire

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#baltic #continent #curtain #descended #iron

Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#comic #curtains #different #different way #disturb

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't. ↗

— Thomas Gold

#certainly #cold #cold war #communication #could

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#bernard #between #bitter #called #composer