Cosi Quotes

Question 1

” I need the money, Lucy “

Answer 1

Lewis

Question 2

” why can’t I ever say no? Just leave. They’re mad. It’s madness “

Answer 2

Lewis

Question 3

” do you think we should be doing something like this?… in these days, you know, the Vietnam war - “

Answer 3

Lewis

Question 4

” love is not so important nowadays “

“ what planet are you from “

Answer 4

Lewis to Roy

Question 5

” free love is a hard concept to define “

Answer 5

Lewis

Question 6

” 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 “

Answer 6

Lewis ( about Lucy )

Question 7

” it’s about important things - like love and fidelity “

Answer 7

Lewis

Question 8

” I don’t have a concept, I’m a director “

Answer 8

Lewis

Question 9

” mad actors are bad enough, but madmen… “

Answer 9

Nick

Question 10

” only mad people in this day and age would do a work about love and infidelity. They’re definitely mad “

Answer 10

Nick

Question 11

” Christ, you’ll never be a director until you can convince the, that what you want to do is what they want to do “

Answer 11

Nick

Question 12

” bit shy the old Henry. Part of this project is to bring out people like Henry “

Answer 12

Justin

Question 13

” they are normal people who have done extraordinary things, thought extraordinary thoughts “

Answer 13

Justin

Question 14

” 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 “

Answer 14

Justin

Question 15

” straight out of university and… Well, this is probably the best education: doing theatre, working with such people! “

Answer 15

Justin

Question 16

” it’s all in my head. Without this, the world wouldn’t be the same “

Answer 16

Roy

Question 17

” without this opera having been composed there would be a clanging, barging, a bedlam all around us “

Answer 17

Roy

Question 18

” look on the bright side, Jerry. For killing an actor, he’d get life, for killing a director he get eternal gratitude “

Answer 18

Roy

Question 19

” … Hate is a much more pure emotion. We choose our enemies with much greater care than our loves “

Answer 19

Roy

Question 20

” … Democracy is foreign to theatre, Jerry. You and I know that, it’s just that you want to pander to the mob “

Answer 20

Roy

Question 21

” 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.

Answer 21

Roy

Question 22

” 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 “

Answer 22

Doug

Question 23

” in a way you’re sort of testing yourself by coming here? “

Answer 23

Julie

Question 24

” 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… “

Answer 24

Julie

Question 25

" my parents had me committed. They think it's sort of like a holiday "

Answer 25

Julie

Question 26

" ... 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 "

Answer 26

Julie

Question 27

" 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 "

Answer 27

Julie

Question 28

" isn't that the first day of the moratorium " | " this comes first "

Answer 28

Julie to Lewis

Question 29

" my fffffather fought in the war for you. For you and ffffor me. He was a ggggreat man. You are traitors "

Answer 29

Henry

Question 30

" yes the more real it is, the more real it is "

Answer 30

Ruth

Question 31

" comedy is better when it's real "

Answer 31

Ruth

Question 32

" I thought we would make it more real. The women aren't twits, are they? "

Answer 32

Cherry

Question 33

" I can't stand real things. If I could put up with reality I wouldn't be in here "

Answer 33

Zac

Question 34

" 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 "

Answer 34

Lucy

Question 35

" happy is the man who calmly takes life as he finds it and though the vicissitudes of life lets himself be ruled by reason... "

Answer 35

All at the end of Cosi Fan Tutte