AAE quotes

Question 1

You can breathe it can’t you? ~

Answer 1

Like some magic perfume

Question 2

But somehow acting and make believe began to fill up my life more and more, it got so that I couldn’t tell the ~ except that the ~.

Answer 2

real from the unreal, unreal seemed more real to me

Question 3

Why, if there’s nothing else - there’s applause. It’s like - like waves of ~ …

Answer 3

love

Question 4

So many people - know me. I wish I did ~

Answer 4

I wish someone would tell me about me

Question 5

Bill’s in love with Margo Channing. He’s fought with her, worked with her loved her… but ten years from now - Margo Channing will have ceased to exist. ~

Answer 5

And what’s left will be what?

Question 6

A woman’s career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you’ll need them again when ~. That’s one career all females have in common - whether we like it or not - ~

Answer 6

you go back to being a woman, being a woman

Question 7

And no more make believe! ~

Answer 7

Off stage or on

Question 8

It mean’s I’ve finally ~ I don’t have to play parts I’m too old for - just because I’ve got ~

Answer 8

got a life to live, nothing to do with my nights

Question 9

Just a playwright’s wife ~

Answer 9

I’m the lowest form of celebrity

Question 10

I’m nobody’s fool ~

Answer 10

least of all yours

Question 11

share a contempt for humanity, ~, insatiable ambition and ~.

Answer 11

an inability to love and be loved, talent

Question 12

like she was studying you, like you were a play or a book or a ~

Answer 12

set of blueprints

Question 13

Lloyd says Margo compensates for underplaying on the stage by ~

Answer 13

overplaying reality

Question 14

Margo just doesn’t miss performances. If she can ~, ~ or ~ - she plays

Answer 14

walk, crawl, roll

Question 15

We all have ~ in common. We are a breed apart from the rest of the humanity, we theatre folk. We are the original ~

Answer 15

abnormality, displaced personalities

Question 16

It means concentration of ~, ~ and ~ such as no other profession demands… And I’ll agree that the man or woman who accepts those terms can’t be ordinary, can’t be just - someone.

Answer 16

ambition, desire, sacrifice

Question 17

For once, to write something and have it realised completely. For once not to ~

Answer 17

compromise

Question 18

He listened to his play as if someone else had written it, he said, it sounded so fresh, so new, so ~

Answer 18

full of meaning…

Question 19

I shall never understand the weird process by which a body with a voice suddenly ~! Just when exactly does an actress decide they’re her words she’s saying and her thoughts she’s expressing?

Answer 19

fancies itself a mind

Question 20

In this rat race everybody’s ~

Answer 20

guilty till they’re proved innocent

Question 21

We know her humility. ~

Answer 21

Her devotion, her loyalty to her art

Question 22

that helplessness you feel when you have no talent to offer ~. How could I compete? Everything Lloyd loved about me, ~

Answer 22

outside of loving your husband, he had gotten used to long ago