| CTY 2002 QUOTES |
| Ahh...2002, the year of Crafting Drama and Psychology at dear old Dickinson...It was a very good year...Highly highly quotable...enjoy. There are lots of good general playwrighting quotations, as well as the infamous Bo-isms. Gotta love it. |
| �How do I know what I think until I see what I say?��E.M. Forster �My pencil will outlast their erasers.��Nabokov �To pass judgement on your characters is to make silhouettes of them.��Cesare Pavase �Every entrance is an exit from somewhere else.��Bo Wilson �I want you to be King. Go be King! Gosh darnit, you�re resisting my objective!��Bo as Lady Macbeth �Formality is simply anger with its hair combed.��Botvinnik�A Walk in the Woods ��Have you ever slept with a redhead?� �No.� �Neither have I. It is a great regret.�� �Botvinnik and Honeyman�A Walk in the Woods �If Cinderella went out into the desert, the coyotes would make her a dress.��Bo �People in plays are all Nuts!��Bo �High school is like evil but pointier.��Ben Korn �That�s a smile, not an upside-down frown.��Molly Sauter to Garrett (R.A.) �Explode the world.��Kira Brynes �I�m mad as hell, and I�m not going to take it anymore!��Howard�Network �Whatever happened to Once Upon a Time?��Bo �It�s always the job of the innocent and brave to point out the Emperor is naked.��Bo �You take me places other people don�t. Isn�t that the definition of love?��Bo �You can�t blame a writer for what the characters say.��Truman Capote �That trite little whimsy about characters getting out of hand�it�s as old as the quills. My characters are galley slaves.��Vladimir Nabokov �Sex is awkward, therefore sex is funny.��Bo �I like playing with your eyeballs.��Bo �Plato again? I really don�t have time for this.��Me �I had a dream that I was Mikey Mouse once. And I had a horrible fear of erasers.��Erin �You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.��William Saroyan �It�s like �Let�s all just sit around and try to think of the most ridiculous and futile social commentaries that we can, since we�re just over-privelaged brats who think that being shocking is the same thing as being intelligent.��Hannah Lee �You might as well wallow in apathy, smoke pot all day and keep Kurt Cobain�s suicide note in the place in your wallet where your money would be if you had a job.��Hannah �If you want truth, go to God. Go to your guru. Go to yourself because that�s the only place you�ll ever find any real truth.��Howard�Network � �So far, over 900 fucking phone calls complaining about the foul language.� �Shit.���Network � �Bullshit is all the reasons we give for living, and, if we can�t think up any reasons of our own, we always have the God bullshit.� �Holy Mary Mother of Christ.���Howard and a secretary�Network � �We don�t know why the hell we�re going through all this pointless pain, humiliation and decay, so there better be someone somewhere who does know. That�s the God bullshit.� �He�s saying life is bullshit, and it is, so what�re you screaming about?�� �Howard and Max�Network �You�re a saucy, saucy banana.��Sarah House �Well, if there�s anybody out there who can look around this demented slaughterhouse of a world we live in and tell me man is a noble creature, that man is full of bullshit.� �Howard�Network �Rock, paper, scissors is always amusing. It�s never not funny.��Me �Mice talk, you just have to be able to hear them.��Evan (CTY Evan) �You need me badly. I�m your last contact with human reality. I love you and that painful, decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day.��Max�Network �There�s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and open a vein.��Red Smith �Disneyland is like�gay mecca.��Nic Katona (R.A.) �Write a play. You don�t have to write about pregnant aliens. You can write about lusty toystore workers.��Bo �I think I�m gonna have to give you the big Fuck You, Commander.��Rob Boyd �A playwright�s prerogative: to, when you see fire, throw gasoline on it.��Bo �SQUEEK. WHERE�S MY CHEESE?��Bo �I have not seen your fluffy, crunchy doggy. Perhaps the tasty doggy went home.��Big Bunny �Don�t just do something. Stand there!��Bo�s say on acting �When you look at the floor, you should imagine you see big red letters that say DON�T LOOK HERE!!!��More acting tips �Consequences dictate my course of action and it doesn�t matter what�s right, it�s only wrong if you get caught.��Tool �Oscar is grouchy because they�re pulling him away from his third reading of the Aneid.��Bo �Scotch tape. It smells like Christmas.��Kris (T.A.) �She removes the paper bag to reveal that she is actually a talking German Shepherd.� �Rob Boyd �Die bugs. Die!!!��John MacDonald exiting an improv scene �How about Patricia after Peter, or Lucia after Luke, or Jesus after Jesus?��Me naming angels �I�ve never been big on the agony of writing. I see no evidence that Tolstoy suffered from writer�s block.��James Michener �Sex is awkward when someone loses an eye.��Bo � �No one talks like you. My brother is in danger.��I think Milo is highly troubled by this alleged man.��Bo talking about Hannah�s play �I�m too busy writing my epic poem about puppies discussing nuclear disarmorment.��Hannah �Happy cows come from California, cuz they like nice weather.��Tim Neal �If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?��Molly�s pick up line �Light a man a fire and he�ll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he�ll be warm for the rest of his life.��James Kraft �Are there fools abroad in the world? Most certainly. Shall you encounter them today? It is assured. Shall they behave foolishly? Of course, for this is their very nature. Be not angry, therefore, at nature itself, lest anger become your only fellow.��Marcus Aurelius ��now get into this chicken suit.��Rob Boyd �A talking German shepherd? I haven�t seen something like that since the pool chair caught on fire.��Rob Boyd �You can eat in here and you can eat in the lobby, but you can�t eat in the dining hall�I like to blow the minds.��Bret Kramer �That�s cuz God hates you. Now give me my money!��CTYer playing Life �Pickles belong everywhere, my friend.��Tim Neal �I�ve decided that you�re a lunatic.��Tim Neal �Let�s whip out the wine and say a prayer.��Dan �See I don�t think shock therapy would really work to treat anxiety. I mean, if it was me, I�d be more anxious is someone stuck electrodes on me.��Me �Oh my God there are starving kids in India. Oh my God why don�t I mail them half of my sandwich.��Kelly �In this chapter, we have taken a brief peek at the marvelous three-pound universe that is your brain.��Psychology and Life �This isn�t about honesty. This is about advertising.��Kurt Richter �We have to go through childbirth and you go through that? Cry me a river.��Me (In reference to the ::ahem:: shiver boys have when they pee.) �I�m not complaining about it. I look forward to it.��Dan � �You�ve got a wife?� �Sorry to disappoint you.���Caitlin Cavanaugh and Kurt � �Do you think Leon Trotsky played the bagpipes?� �Leon Trotsky played the ice pick���Erin and me �All cockadoodledoo-like.��Kelly �They don�t talk!��Tim Neal in re: his balls (that�s lewd) � �My tongue came alive.� �It burns so good.���Dan and me in psych class �I�m not going to prostitute my elbow skin!��Erin �It takes a real man to wear a dress.��Me |