Quotations: Volume 1

Here are some of the educational, inspirational, and humorous quotations from my classes this week:

- "You must have questions, but you might not be ready to ask them yet." ~ Movement Professor

- "My brother physically punches me every time I say a liquid U. 'Did you just say Tyoosday?' Punch!" ~ Voice Professor

- "Freedom is an artistic quality." ~ Acting Professor

- "How to stop is not a problem. How to start is." ~ Acting Professor

- "You had an affair with a pigeon, didn't you?" ~ Acting Professor to Two-Shots-Up, about her connection to an Exit sign during an exercise.

- "You can't walk in the same waters twice." ~ Acting Professor

- "Every generation says that theatre is going to die out, but it never does." ~ Textual Analysis Professor

- "Theatre can't be just about education, because if it is, frankly I'd rather stay home and have a cocktail." ~ Textual Analysis Professor

- "It was a cookbook. I loved it." ~ The Pro, on how bland reading Poetics was

- "If you write 'teaser' on there, I'm going to think you're talking about a guy at a bar." ~ The Pro, talking about our handout on stage terms

- "We are naïve people. We think the audience only perceives what we tell them. This is wrong. The audience perceives everything." ~ Acting Professor

- "You cannot fill a glass that is already full; it will only overflow. You have to empty it first." ~ Acting Professor, on why we have to break down our old habits before we learn new ones

- "When your art is your civil service, there is no boring exercise." ~ Acting Professor