Category Archives: Interacting With The Audience

[Blank]ing is a time honored theatrical tradition.  Here are some memorable quotes from plays through the ages… including a hell of a lot of Shakespeare… he’s [Blank]ing dirty!

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Williams Shakespeare’s As you like It

• “That her [Blank]s may henceforth be bestowed equally.”
• “Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more [Blank] and [Blank] of you.”
• “My pride fell with my [Blank].”
• “O, how full of [Blank] is this working-day world!”
• “[Blank] on, you fat and greasy citizens.”
• “I can suck [Blank] out of a [Blank] as a weasel sucks eggs.”
• “Blow, blow, thou [Blank]er [Blank]! Thou art not so unkind As man’s [Blank].”
• “[Blank] me in one word.”
• “I do desire we may be better [Blank]ers.”
• “I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am [Blank].”

Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia

• “It’s the wanting to [Blank] that makes us matter.”

William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That End’s Well

• “Oft [Blank] fails, and most oft there Where most it promises.”
• “It is like a [Blank]er’s [Blank] that fits all buttocks.”
• “They say miracles are [Blank].”
• “A young man married is a man that’s [Blank].”
• “Make the coming [Blank] o’erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim.”

William Shakespeare’s, Antony and Cleopatra

• “I love long [Blank] better than figs.”
• “The nature of bad [Blank] infects the [Blank].”
• “There’s a great [Blank] gone!”
• “[Blank] was in our lips and yes, Bliss in our [Blank] bent.”
• “Give me to drink [Blank] That I might sleep this out this great gap of [Blank]…”
• “Where ‘s my serpent of old [Blank]?”
• “I do not much dislike the [Blank], but The manner of his [Blank].”
• “I [Blank]ed him out of patience; and that night I [Blank]ed him into patience; and next morn, Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed.”
• “It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs: it lives by that which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.” – This quote didn’t need any [Blank]!
• “O! my [Blank]s have Corrupted honest men.”

Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• “Just staying on it, I [Blank], as long as she can…”
• “Silence about a [Blank] just magnifies it.”
• “You can be young without [Blank], but you can’t be old without it.”
• “[Blank] is important. There’s nothing else to hold on onto.”
• “[Blank] just outran me, Big Daddy, got there first…”

Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard

• “My mistress has come home; at last I’ve seen her. Now I’m ready to [Blank].”
• “My love is like a [Blank] tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the [Blank]; I love my [Blank]. I can’t live without it.”

Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac

• “He’s famous for his long–[Blank].”
• “My [Blank] is Gargantuan! You little Pig-[Blank], you tiny Monkey-[Blank], you virtually invisible Pekinese-[Blank], don’t you realize that a [Blank] like mine is both scepter and orb, a monument to me superiority? A great [Blank] is the banner of a great man, a generous heart, a towering spirit, an expansive soul.”
• “My [Blank] is more polished than your mustache”
• “You’re a genuinely good [Blank]. There aren’t many of you left.”
• “Yes, it is perfect. Your white [Blank]…”
• “God’s whiskers! Your [Blank] is hideous as the demon’s in my storybook!”

Just to end on an overused phrase:

William Shakespeare’s, Hamlet

• “To [Blank] or not to [Blank], that is the question.”

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In the future, we are going to post some quotes from plays we review, formatted like these quotes, and whoever can come up with some of the most creative responses will win some cool stuff!  Keep a look out at a [Blank] near you!

If you feel inspired from any of our quotes, feel free to send us your creative responses.

I hope you all [Blank]ed!

-Shaunessy