Actors: What's the most memorable line of dialogue you have said on stage?

Question

Mine is slightly off-colour which is probably why I remember it almost 50 years later. I was barely 17 when, in a production of "Tea and Sympathy," I entered and said, "Jesus Christ, the son of a b*tch was bare-a**ed." The part wasn't much, but the line was terrific!

Answer 1

I think my most memorable one was the first time I took Center, put a hand in my pocket, and said: "All the World's a stage..." etc. (AYLI)

Talk about pressure.

Oh, and re: the "F bomb" comment in the above post: It just feels different, don't it? When one HAS to say it, it sounds more aggressive and dirty. Perhaps we should all be cognizant of it in our daily speech.

But enough pontificating.

Answer 2

I did a David Mamet play just last year, and I actually found it a bit unnerving to toss around so many "F"-bombs in public.

Granted, the "F" word is in my personal lexicon, but it was still odd to spit it out onstage.

Answer 3

"You sh*t me, Henderson. You sh*t me completely. I'm going to bed."

Answer 4

"Watch out..." ... I was the photographer at the back stage behind the curtain... I always do back-stage job... does it count as "on stage"   :- )

Answer 5

Sophomore year of high school i was doing "The Foreigner" and my first line on stage was "I'm pregnant!"

At the time it seemed like such a big deal....

Its funny how we remember things like that

Answer 6

Well I'm 17 right now, fittingly enough, and my favorite line I've said to this point in my short and illustrious career is from Twelfth Night when Malvolio is reading a letter from Olivia and says "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them "

Although my favorite moment as an actor came this last spring in our production of The Merchant of Venice, when I wasn't even speaking. It was when Shylock is about to cut my flesh out, and I just really felt like was in character and was proud of the way that I portrayed it.

Answer 7

May sound pretty weird .but  after some thinking cannot remember all the plays we performed or the lines I did.

Old age hey!!!

Sky.

Answer 8

As Dr. Finsdale in Lil' Abner: "Smithborn, do you mean to tell me that you, a super-secret scientist, does not know what a mass-spectrographic-isotopic double-diathermal-diofenescope is?"

Answer 9

"He was one page, in a book that has ten thousand pages, in one of a million libraries, that has a million books."

I played The Doctor, in Ionesco's "Exit the King."  I played it as sort of a sardonic Rod Serling, standing off to the side and commenting to the audience on the action.

Appropriate, I thought, considering it's a "Twilight Zone" sort of play.

(Shrug) Hey, what do you expect?  I was a teenager.  They're always derivative and full of themselves.

Answer 10

"...die again, Morticia!  But I never did."  I was playing Mortimer in "The Fantasticks" (who I played as a woman, Morticia).  As an actress this was a fun role to play, especially against "Old Henry".  The other actor was indeed many years older than me and delightful to play against!  In my 15 years on the stage this was one of my favorites!

Answer 11

I don't remember my favorite line but my favorite character was the jamaican guy i had to play this spring in legally blonde the musical, it was sooo much fun.

Answer 12

"Mama, mama, mommy!" I was Molly in the first show I eveer did and I will always remember opening the show, Annie, with this line.

Answer 13

"I really care about the kids". Actually, that is the only line I have ever said on stage. I played a social worker, and I was wearing a dress.