Top Curtain Quotes
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
David Geffen
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
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
Douglas Horton
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
Clive Barnes
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot
Robert Caro 
Winston Churchill 
Edwin Booth 
T. S. Eliot 
Angela Lansbury 
Rainer Maria Rilke 
James Russell Lowell All Curtain Quotes
Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
Florenz Ziegfeld 
45% of people like this quote
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
Edwin Booth
45% of people like this quote
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria Callas
43% of people like this quote
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
Florenz Ziegfeld
42% of people like this quote
You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.
Robert Caro
41% of people like this quote
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.
Robert Caro
38% of people like this quote
One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.
Terence Fisher
35% of people like this quote
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
Harold MacMillan
34% of people like this quote
Popular Curtain Authors
Henry David ThoreauWinston ChurchillDwight D. EisenhowerVirginia WoolfGroucho MarxJames Russell LowellT. S. EliotDouglas HortonJerry FalwellRainer Maria RilkeE. B. WhiteEli WallachJoseph RotblatNatan SharanskyNorman Lear
Harold MacMillanJay RoachJohn CameronGrover ClevelandDavid GeffenJennifer BealsMaria CallasMartha GellhornRobert CaroSarah BernhardtDavid KnopflerKel MitchellKate ChopinAngela LansburyJames Stewart
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