Quotations: Volume 45

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)


"Um, Stage Combat... I may be the only faculty person in the building during Stage Combat, so I might be in charge of it. Not sure how that's gonna work."
- Voice Professor

"We're going to be busy. We're going to be in Machinal. And the right after we'll be in The Game of Love and Chance. Is that the name of the play? (group collectively says 'yes') Oh, good. That would've been embarrassing for me."
- Voice Professor

"Don't send any play suggestions to me. I'm watching Say Yes to the Dress. I'm not reading that."
- Voice Professor, after people had asked if they could submit suggestions of plays for the theatre to produce next year

"This shouldn't hurt. Ballet shouldn't hurt. At least, not now. It should hurt tomorrow."
- Movement Professor

"...And of course Marivaux is an outgrowth of them. I meant a descendent, not an outgrowth. He's not a fungus."
- Movement Professor, after talking about Moliere and other French playwrights of the time period

"I took speed once. I was awake for four days. [...] I liked it so much that I knew I could never do drugs again."
- [name withheld to protect the guilty]

(while discussing Killer's need in his Romeo monologue, a possibility was that Romeo was trying to get the Friar to give him a miracle)
Acting Professoressa: So this means you are endowing the Friar with the ability to carry out miracles.
O.D.: Would you like me to stand in for that then?

"I don't have a syllabus for you. I'll have one on Tuesday. But, briefly, the syllabus says... the same old crap."
- Acting Professoressa

"Think about what will happen when your granddaughter finds this in the future. She'll read your notes, see all your work... It's inspiring."
- Acting Professoressa, trying to motivate us to do our labor-intensive Shakespeare Workbook homework

"The man is dying, but must the play die?"
- Acting Professoressa, after Iceman's first attempt at his monologue where he plays a dying man