Famous quotes with The footlights

• Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

  Ivor Novello
• Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

  Mae West
• '...Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.'

  Evelyn Waugh
• To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

  Samuel Butler (novelist)

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