Favorite RENT Quotes

#1

Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 5:30pm

Please don't shun me if this kind of thread has been created, but I DID do a search, and nothing came up. What is your favorite quote in the musical RENT? Not the movie, but the show.

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#2

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 5:31pm

They say that I've got the best ass below 14th street. Is it true?

#3

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 5:34pm

Obviously, No Day But Today.

That boy could use some Prozac!

#4

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 5:37pm

lol- Mine is a strange one, "So let's find a bar, so dark we forget who we are, and all the scars from the "nevers" and "maybes" die!" Ohyes, and "They say that I have the best ass...."

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"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

#5

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 5:38pm

Maureen: "I'll kiss your Doc Martens, Let me kiss your Doc Martens, every wish I will obey"
Joanne: That may be ok. Down girl, heel"
I waer Doc Martens!

#6

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 5:45pm

"You can take the girl out of Hicksville but you can't take the Hicksville out of the girl." Because I have family in Hicksville, OH.

And from the NYTW version..."I'm lonely, bored and horny."

#7

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 5:45pm

haha- who says that?

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#8

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 5:52pm

Mimi by way of Angel from the movie: I'm more of a man than you'll ever be and more of a woman than you'll ever get.

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#9

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 5:53pm

All of What You Own...

"So I own not a notion I escape and ape content. I don't own emotion I rent."

Also: "There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love or live in fear."

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#10

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 5:53pm

All of What You Own...

"So I own not a notion I escape and ape content. I don't own emotion I rent."

Also: "There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love or live in fear."

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"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

#11

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 6:13pm

I trust my soul, my only goal is just--to be.

GOsh, I love that line!!!!

#12

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 6:18pm

"Why are entire years strewn on the cutting room floor of memory when single frames from one magic night forever flicker in close-up on the 3-D IMAX of my mind?"

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#13

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 6:23pm

Mrs Cohen: Mark are you there? Are you screenig your calls? It's mom.

Mark: Where'd you learn to tango?

Joanne: With the French Ambassador's daughter in her dorm
room at Miss Porter's. And you?

Mark:With Nanette Himmelfarb. The Rabbi's daughter at the
Scarsdale Jewish Community Center.

#14

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 6:32pm

I think they meant it
when they said you can't buy love
now i know you can rent it
a new lease you were my love
on life...be my life...

whew. hot.

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#15

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 6:39pm

"Why did Mimi knock on Roger's door, and Collins choose that phonebooth back where Angel set up his drams, why did Maureen's equipment break down? Why am I the witness, and when I capture it on film does it mean that it's the end and I'm alone?"

I love Halloween.

#16

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 6:44pm

"Yes you live a lie. Tell you why, you're always preaching not to be numb, when that's how you thrive. You pretend to create and observe when you really detatch from feeling alive." - Roger

"Give in to love, or live in fear."

"Leave your conciense at the tone" - Mark and Roger

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"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too." - Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck

#17

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 6:54pm

Man, I love all of these.

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"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

#18

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 6:59pm

Oh so so many choices. Halloween and the Mark/Roger fight are by far my favorite scenes, but lines would be:

“So let's find a bar/ So dark we forget who we are/ And all the scars from the nevers and maybes die”

"You wanna prove me wrong?/ Come back another day"

"No one's perfect I've got baggage/ --Life's too short, babe, time is flying/ I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine"

"Who are you to tell me what I know, what to do/ -- A friend"

#19

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 6:59pm

I've got another one:

Roger:She's in love
Benny:She's got a new man?
Mark: Well -- no
Benny:What's his name?
Mark and Roger: Joanne

#20

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 7:08pm

Maureen: You know Miss Ivy League. I can't take much more of your obsessive, compulsive, control freak paranoia. I didn't pierce my nipples cause it grossed you out. I didn't stay at the Clit Club last night because you wanted to go home!

Joanne: You were flirting with the woman in rubber.

Maureen: There will always be woman in rubber flirting with me. Give me a break!

the best lines by far

#21

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 7:10pm

"To being an us for once, instead of a them."

"Let he among us without sin be the first to condemn La Vie Boheme."

"Who are you to tell me what I know, what to do?"
"A friend."
"But who, Mark, are you?"
And the rest of the Mark and Roger fight.

"With a thousand sweet kisses, when your heart has expired
Oh, lover, I'll cover you"

There are really WAY too many.

#22

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 7:14pm

"Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow-to blow off Auntie Em!" I love that!
I love the entirety of WYO, LVB, and Halloween.

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#23

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 7:25pm

The onel that walking posted.

"To Sodamy it's between God and me, to S and M!"

"Let he among us, without sin be the first to condemn. La Vie Boheme."

and tons of others...

#24

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 7:30pm

"Close on Mark's nosedive: will he get out of here alive?"

"The heart may freeze or it can burn, the pain will ease if I can learn... There is no future, there is no past, I live this moment as my last."

plus all of ICY, Halloween and WYO.
and of course:
"Let he among us without sin be the first to condemn La Vie Boheme!"

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forget regret...

#25

re: Favorite RENT Quotes

Posted: 12/7/05 at 7:51pm

Joanne: You were flirting with the woman in rubber.

Maureen: There will always be woman in rubber flirting with me. Give me a break!


those are my favorite too ^_^

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