Quotations: Volume 53

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

(Disclaimer: quotations are often taken out of context and may not accurately reflect the way they were originally intended)


"Touch not the goods."
- Acting Professoressa, to O.D. and Thrill during their Two Noble Kinsmen scene

"Is there going to be pot luck? I'm afraid of Jesus and pot luck."
- Voice Professor, about an upcoming event, after explaining that she couldn't sleep after watching a documentary about the Shroud of Turin

"That was in my goth days... I had a leather jacket and a studded bra."
- Voice Professor, on being in a Salem Witch Trials historic exhibit production

"Okay. Silence. You may begin...(silence) Cat sound! (awkwardly stifled laughter from group) Sorry, I couldn't resist."
- Acting Professoressa, right before Angela and Newbie restarted their All's Well That Ends Well scene, after she had explained that Sir Toby and Sir Andrew might cause a ruckus offstage including cat noises.

"I'm helping you with the hand... Noooooo."
- Voice Professor, after doing hand gestures to help Killer with the vowel-shift for the word "no" in Irish dialect

(after noticing that Two-Shots-Up was taking a picture of Angela with her purple/pink streaked April Fools Day hair next to a purple/pink box of tissues)
Voice Professor: Are you taking a picture because she matches the Kleenex box? How ridiculous.
D-Train: Says the woman with Jesus nightmares.
Voice Professor: (in Irish dialect) That's my subconscious, y' [jerk]!

"This is not such a literal moment. This is not 'the atomic weight of uranium is four-hundred-fifty-six.'"
- Acting Professoressa, to D-Train

(after Acting Professoressa said that D-Train had done something in the scene later than she thought he wanted to)
D-Train: (jokingly)So, I should follow my impulses?
Acting Professoressa: Oh, yeah. What a radical f***ing idea...

(when rehearsing Much Ado about Nothing, for which D-Train is stage manager)
D-Train: Take it from...
Angela: Take it from the kiss?
Newbie: Can we take it from the a** slap?
Acting Professoressa: (looks at the clock) Can we take it from the break?
(NOTE: Apparently, Newbie was quoting something that Machinal Stage Manager once said in rehearsal.)

"It smells like sex in here."
- Iceman, improving in character as the drunken jail-keeper in Two Noble Kinsmen