Curtain Quotes

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

Iron, Across, Continent

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Nothing, Himself

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
Bob Dylan

Life, Work, Design

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

Play, Conditions, Adverse

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot

Greatest, Down, Getting

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hard, Trouble, Behind

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Heart, Before, Falling

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
James Russell Lowell

Heart, Before, Tense

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Virginia Woolf

Good, Quality, Draw

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
E. B. White

Find, Play, Fall

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.
Adele

Someone, Through, Problems

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

Character, Impossible, Betray

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
Jules Verne

Between, Far, Earth

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
Harold MacMillan

Best, Away, Actor

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

Life, Long, Down

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
Douglas Horton

Evil, Conscience, Spirit

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
George M. Cohan

Funny, After, Until

Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!
Angie Stone

Give, Why, Wait

People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.' It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.
John Stamos

Life, Great, True

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

Life, Moment, Wonderful

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Down, Her, Star

That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the first time and they see you for the first time. The response and the energy that's going on right there - to me, that sets the tone for the rest of the night.
Jason Aldean

Time, Night, Energy

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
Flip Wilson

Funny, Time, Good

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
Grover Cleveland

Truth, Down, Rather

Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
Dan Stevens

Business, Night, Before

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
Ian Mcewan

Time, Down, Play

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
Jerry Falwell

God, Give, America

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

Down, Through, Another

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.
Mark Cuban

Money, Great, Trying

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.
Paul Thomas Anderson

Job, Behind, Director

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