Top 489 Curtain Quotes & Sayings

You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.

When the curtain falls no one is ready

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-ripped.One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God.A beautiful idea.But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Obviously some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain.

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

As an actor, you know that every act has a closing curtain.

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.

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's the end of that. Then Korea happens. Vietnam happens, all that happened in Latin America happens. And every now and then, this curtain comes down and history begins anew. New moralities and new indignations are manufactured...in a disappeared history.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.

I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters.

Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

On matinee days I could never be sure I'd make the curtain for the matinee. I'd put on my makeup in the morning, rush to the studio and do the radio shows,then try to get across town before the curtain went up.

It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can bring the curtain in and then opening the show a second time is a little bizarre as a tradition. I've always preferred to go straight through.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for good”; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

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

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

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

Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

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

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

I'm glad about 'The Curtain Call' now, but I remember being very confused watching it all go down because I was right there behind the curtain watching it all, and I couldn't believe these guys were breaking kayfabe.

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.

We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.

My first assignment was a curtain-puller for 'The Curious Savage.'

Anytime a curtain closes forever, that's always sad news.

They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")

There's a curiosity about what magazine editors do, the behind-the-curtain experience.

Remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub.

Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.

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

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

I come from the theater, so I like it being: curtain up, this is what we want you to see, we have a reason for showing it to you, and then the curtain comes down, and that's it.

Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

Peter Hart, who's a pollster that's - who's done many focus groups about Hillary Clinton, talks about a glass curtain. She talks about the glass ceiling. He says voters feel there's a glass curtain between themselves and Hillary Clinton. They can't relate to her. They feel they don't really understand her, and that's made it easier for her opponents, of which there have been many over many years, to define her the way they want to.

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