I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

- James Stewart

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

- Ray McKinnon

I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

- P. L. Travers

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

- Paul Thomas Anderson

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

- Norman Lear

We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them.

- Kel Mitchell

I don't like when actors go around and talk a ton about how they approach their roles, because it's a little like pulling the curtain back on Oz, for me.

- Jim Parrack

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

- Jay Roach

You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

- John Wesley Powell

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

- John Stamos

You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.

- Aubrey O'Day

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

- James Russell Lowell

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

- Henry David Thoreau

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

- Harold MacMillan

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

- George M. Cohan

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

- Groucho Marx

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

- Edwin Booth

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

- Emile Hirsch

Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.

- Bethany McLean

Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio.

- Benny Blanco