Browsing Topic Best Opening Night Quotes

Why not say it? I’m bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past – it never knocked anyone out. But last year… my first opening night at the Met – I looked out and heard all that cheering… for me… And I loved it.

So he was opening night… I was out of a job, and I’d been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me.

The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there’s a mixed sadness because you’re finished with a lot of people’s favorite part of the process, which is finding the character and discovering it, and then you get to live it.

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It’s exciting, because it’s like you’re going to the film’s opening night at every festival.

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.

I love filmmaking because it’s like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script and then cast and shoot and edit. Then there is opening night, and after that I get another idea.

Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend – if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second – if there is one.

But you certainly don’t have perspective. And there’s so much pressure going into that opening night because you know there’s journalists, tons of acquisitions people, and the fate of your film in some ways, if not decided, is really affected by how it screens that night.

Of course it does on opening night, but I’ve never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.

[To actors on opening night:] You have had good equipment to work with. You’ve had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.

As an actor, you’re always at the service of somebody else’s vision. In a play, it’s more of the director’s vision, and he or she’s got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it’s a film, there are even more people.

I remember when I was doing The Crucible on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, Lets make sure we remember this.

I went to see ‘Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.’ I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn’t know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

I didn’t want to chase movies. It’s too hard. You’ve got to work at it – opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I’m too lazy.

My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.

The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to ‘Jurassic Park’ or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I’ve got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

Life is not a dress rehearsal – every day is opening night.