Quotations: Volume 4

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


"If you get bored, well, then you are boring. So don't let that happen." - Voice Professor

"If they have a big, slamming tremor, then that's wonderful. If you have a small tremor, then how fortunate for you." - Voice Professor

"And bring yourself to a rest position... and try to visualize yourself jumping rope." - Voice Professor, completely ruining our rest with a joke

"I put oatmeal in them, so it's almost like eating breakfast." - The Pro, encouraging people to eat the cookies he brought to school on his birthday

"You're not going to know your name by Saturday morning." - The Pro, to one of the 2nd-year directors regarding her birthday

O.D.: You were really intense. Just pay attention to that.
Acting Professor: And do you recognize that intensity?
O.D.: No.
Acting Professor: Do you ever experience that?
O.D.: I have no idea what you're talking about.
(Note -- O.D. had recently been intense in an exercise.)

"Street-crossed lovers!" - D-Train, after Acting Professor compared Big Show's elementary school romance with the girl across the street to Romeo & Juliet

"I have no standards when it comes to hair." - Killer

All The Way: Why are you here?
Thrill: Because it's free.

"Oh, look, there's plenty of fish... that look suspiciously like my classmates." - Acting Professor, on a point-of-view exercise

"To embrace life fully? Only humans do that. To save the country? Only humans do that. Not cats or bears." - Analysis Professor

"More than committed, less than lovers." - Voice Professor, when we asked her to clarify what she meant by, "become familiar with the material over the weekend."

"This is the skull of Sir Lawrence Olivier when he was three. And this is the skull of Sir Lawrence Olivier when he was fifteen." - Acting Professor, on what it would be like to be in an imaginary "magical" museum

"I moved out of here when I was eight. I was a weird little eight year old." - O.D., on envisioning his childhood bedroom

"With those lights, because they're kind of heavy, you have to sort of 'woolumph' them onto the table." - Wifey, beautifully making up a verb to explain a physical memory exercise

"It won't be long before I start saying, 'I forgot to set my alarm... and I had eighteen beers last night. Sorry.'" - Big Show

"Now, Angela's a girl who knows how to stretch." - Voice Professor, after I accidentally did a backwards somersault while stretching

*while tremoring*
Angela: OW!
*pause*
Voice Professor: Angela?
Angela: Yes?
Voice Professor: Did you knee yourself in the face?
Angela: Yes.
*pause*
Voice Professor: That stinks.

Acting Professor: The audience is always right. Like the customer.
Thrill: Oh, I thought you were going to say that the critic is always right.
Acting Professor: The critic is never right.

"The audience comes in wanting to be pleasantly surprised. The critics come in thinking, *crosses his arms* 'I wonder if he's going to pull this one off!'" - Acting Professor

"Your creative subconscious is giving you jewels, and the critic in you picks them up and say, 'I dont know... these might not be nice enough.'" - Acting Professor

"When your intuition tells you things, please don't argue. It is smarter." - Acting Professor

"Your creative subconscious knows one more thing; that it ain't a three-act play, [Killer]." - Acting Professor