‘Shows for Days’ (Car): “How much of my time is spent in rehearsal rooms”
“I could barely hear her over the tap dancing.”
Plays
‘Shows for Days’ (Car): “And thus began the best summer of my life”
“I think it’s safe to say my life would have turned out differently if I had played sports as a child.”
‘Recent Tragic Events’ (Ron): “He’s a fireman, you know what I’m saying?”
“This morning I was watching TV and Katie Couric was interviewing this fireman.”
‘Recent Tragic Events’ (Ron): “Do you hear that?”
“I don’t believe in God, per se… but prayer is still kinda cool”
‘Disgraced’ (Amir): “That was the first girl I ever kissed”
“That was the first girl I ever kissed. Rivkah was the first girl I ever got up in the morning thinking about”
‘Disgraced’ (Amir): “You keep saying that like it means something”
“You keep saying that like it means something. You still don’t get it. The Quran is about tribal life in a seventh-century desert, Isaac.”
‘The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence’ (Watson)
“Well obviously I can’t take this. I mean, I didn’t do it for the money anyway…”
‘The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence’ (Merrick and the Bailout of Wall Street)
“I mean look, we’ve all been lulled into a false sense of security, me included.”
‘The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence’ (Merrick): “I focused all my energy on destroying you”
“I focused all my energy on destroying you so I could free myself from your relentless heartless indifference.”
‘The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence’ (Merrick): “I was like you. I was you”
“I can be the change I want to see. That one from a bumper sticker on her Volkswagen Jetta.”
‘The Glass Menagerie’ (Tom)
“What do you think I’m at? Aren’t I supposed to have any patience to reach the end of, Mother?”
‘The Performers’ (Chuck Wood)
“Oh boy, I promised Black Attack I wouldn’t cry, but . . . I was not expecting this.”
‘Arcadia’ (Valentine)
“If you knew the algorithm and fed it back say ten thousand times, each time there’d be a dot somewhere on the screen.”
‘Red’ (Rothko): “All those bugs – ach!”
Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art
‘Red’ (Ken): “Bores you?!”
Rothko works feverishly with his young assistant, Ken, in his studio on the Bowery
‘Laughing Wild’ (Man and the Supermarket story)
The Man talks about getting hit in a supermarket by a woman
‘Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune’ (Johnny tells a story)
Johnny tells Frankie about the time he almost lost his virginity