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Curtain Quotes

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

– Groucho Marx

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

– Harold MacMillan

It’s not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it’s real. When you’re watching one, the terror bombards you.

– Josh Hartnett

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

– George M. Cohan

Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.

– James Russell Lowell

It’s nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere – on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.

– Ben Brantley

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

My decorating and renovation skills are nil – indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as ‘window dressing.’

– Candace Bushnell

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

– Norman Lear

I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Iron Curtain. It’s – they’re cherished treasures to me now, of course.

– Carol Guzy

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

– P. J. O’Rourke

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

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

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

– Douglas Horton

Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.

– Leon Krier

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

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

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

– Rainer Maria Rilke

I was a rabid ‘Seinfeld’ fan. Then I did the show, and it ruined the show for me. Not that it ruined the quality of the show, but I had seen behind the curtain at Oz.

– William Earl Brown

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

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

– Winston Churchill