Cosi Quotes Flashcards
” I need the money, Lucy “
Lewis
” why can’t I ever say no? Just leave. They’re mad. It’s madness “
Lewis
” do you think we should be doing something like this?… in these days, you know, the Vietnam war - “
Lewis
” love is not so important nowadays “
“ what planet are you from “
Lewis to Roy
” free love is a hard concept to define “
Lewis
” she hates to talk about love. She thinks it’s icky. ‘ love is the last gasp of the bourgeois romanticism ‘ she says. She hates me doing an opera about love and fidelity while thousands of Vietnamese are being killed by American troops “
Lewis ( about Lucy )
” it’s about important things - like love and fidelity “
Lewis
” I don’t have a concept, I’m a director “
Lewis
” mad actors are bad enough, but madmen… “
Nick
” only mad people in this day and age would do a work about love and infidelity. They’re definitely mad “
Nick
” Christ, you’ll never be a director until you can convince the, that what you want to do is what they want to do “
Nick
” bit shy the old Henry. Part of this project is to bring out people like Henry “
Justin
” they are normal people who have done extraordinary things, thought extraordinary thoughts “
Justin
” whenever this place gets too much for me, I always think of this definition - a madman is someone who arrives at a fancy dress part dressed in the emperors new clothes “
Justin
” straight out of university and… Well, this is probably the best education: doing theatre, working with such people! “
Justin
” it’s all in my head. Without this, the world wouldn’t be the same “
Roy
” without this opera having been composed there would be a clanging, barging, a bedlam all around us “
Roy
” look on the bright side, Jerry. For killing an actor, he’d get life, for killing a director he get eternal gratitude “
Roy
” … Hate is a much more pure emotion. We choose our enemies with much greater care than our loves “
Roy
” … Democracy is foreign to theatre, Jerry. You and I know that, it’s just that you want to pander to the mob “
Roy
” I had a dream… There would be music… A world that was as far removed from this depressing asylum as possible. A world that was like my childhood.
Roy
” I’m not prying or anything, am I? It’s just that in here you miss out on a lot of changes in societies morals “
Doug
” in a way you’re sort of testing yourself by coming here? “
Julie
” I don’t like men’s double standards, I guess. Men want women to deceive them because it’ll prove their worst thoughts about women… “
Julie
” my parents had me committed. They think it’s sort of like a holiday “
Julie
” … It’s peculiar about drugs. Doug hates them because he likes to be naturally high all the time. Zac likes them because everything passes like he’s in a dream or limbo. I think I’m a naturally addictive personality “
Julie
” I’ve always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It’s about being on the edge and I like being on the edge “
Julie
” isn’t that the first day of the moratorium “
“ this comes first “
Julie to Lewis
” my fffffather fought in the war for you. For you and ffffor me. He was a ggggreat man. You are traitors “
Henry
” yes the more real it is, the more real it is “
Ruth
” comedy is better when it’s real “
Ruth
” I thought we would make it more real. The women aren’t twits, are they? “
Cherry
” I can’t stand real things. If I could put up with reality I wouldn’t be in here “
Zac
” working with these people has changed you. We used to talk about things. Important things. Now all you can talk about is reactionary drivel like Cosi Fan Tutte “
Lucy
” happy is the man who calmly takes life as he finds it and though the vicissitudes of life lets himself be ruled by reason… “
All at the end of Cosi Fan Tutte
