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Quotes About Troupe

Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary. He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity; if he misses a cue, he is hissed; and if he drops through the trapdoor another puppet is in readiness to take his place.
~ Remy de Gourmont
As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern. He is just like other people to them. He could easily have danced with a troupe of angels in Paradise every night and they wouldn't have guessed.
~ Eudora Welty
When I was 14 or 15, I was in a small troupe for teenagers, and I heard somebody say, 'Oh, she'll never get anywhere. She's too common.'
~ Vera Lynn
My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre.
~ Seymour Cassel
My first real break was when my college sketch troupe, The State, was asked to contribute pieces for a new MTV show called 'You Wrote It, You Watch It.'
~ Michael Ian Black
In college, I pretty much abandoned music and started performing with the school's improv and sketch troupe, and at some point, that became my permanent thing.
~ Kyle Mooney
I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
~ Selenis Leyva
I had been acting from a very young age and also performing with a dance troupe, the Kalakshetra Dance Troupe, from city to city. I needed a break. After marriage I took time off. That break lasted 24 years!
~ Amala Akkineni
At Clements, I was an officer in Thespian Troupe No. 3689.
~ Allison Tolman
They have undoubtedly come to a bad end by this time. If bears were sent to attend to the children who criticised Elijah, your little friends were in line for a troupe of tigers. But there were some of a finer fibre? There were a few who didn't call you Carrots?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
~ Buffalo Bill
Goatley forms an acting group which performs avant-garde plays written in palindromes, but the group slowly peters out as the members start dying off of starvation.
~ Woody Allen
I can recall quite clearly the journey from Omaha to San Francisco which I made with the opera troupe; God had created the world in less time than it took us to travel across America.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Compared with the person who had decorated and furnished the place, the Archduke Ferdinand had been blessed with the taste of a troupe of Turkish circus dwarves.
~ Philip Kerr
I worked for my family's Polynesian dance troupe for my entire life up until I started wresting full time.
~ Samoa Joe
I started - well, in England it works a little bit differently. You have to do Fringe theatre, which is basically free theatre. You do it in pubs and small theaters and village halls across the country, and you work for a theatre company. You're part of a troupe.
~ Joshua Sasse
The big rippled sheets of glass were taken out of their sacking and lowered from the back of the wagon, and for a few giddy moments a troupe of rubbery dwarves and etiolated giants shimmied and shivered in those depthless caskets. of light.
~ John Banville
He called the wind and the wind came. It was magic. Real magic. The sort of magic I'd heard about in stories of Taborlin the Great. The sort of magic I hadn't believed in since I was six. Now I didn't know what to believe. So I invited him into our troupe, hoping to find answers to my questions. Though I didn't know it at the time, I was looking for the name of the wind.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I read that young Netalia Lackless had run away with a troupe of traveling performers.
~ Patrick Rothfuss