#curtain

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. ↗

— Norman Lear

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

— Harold MacMillan

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What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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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

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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

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Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

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Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience. ↗

— Eli Wallach

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You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance. ↗

— Julie Harris

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How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain? ↗

— Emile Hirsch

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