Renata's mom: Ah, Curtis is like the son i never had...
Renata: Mom, you have a son...
Renata's mom: Oh, yeah...
Maggie: moo! you can have antlers just like elsie!!
Jeremy: *mouthed* "what the fuck?! cows don't have antlers!
--onstage during otm
I just want to make a quick announcement, before we begin act 3
--Matt, beginning his broadway cares speech at the end of the show
Oh. Well, okay. He was the original Broadway Mark... and he's just cute as a button and twice as.. uh... um... buttony.
--Renata, Anthony Rapp
remember... we must not run on stage to hug actors, slap actors, or beat actors with mark's tripod. no matter how sad scott looks, he does *not* need a hug in the middle of halloween... no matter how little emotion maggie shows during angel's funeral... we should *NOT* slap her... no matter how much she-who-must-not-be-named... just no matter how much she's on stage... we *can't* drag her off. And christian... well... we've learned to restrain ourselves with christian... i mean, we only bleated at him once in iowa city...
--megan
It was so fucking weird. I don't even know why I would dream about those people. Especially Megan #2 and Matt, Joshua, Bart, and Dana... I mean, I had a Rent dream and Curtis didn't even have the courtesy to show up, what's THAT about?
--Renata
The swearing in Rent is good for their characters. Just think if the phrase from below had been "who the poop do you think you are? I don't need no gosh darnit help..." it would sound very silly.
--Karalyn
I kinda like it when you forget to give me presents. It makes me feel like we're married.
--Adelaide, "Guys and Dolls"
it is so wonderful to see our mission graced with so many evil-looking sinners!
--The general, "Guys and Dolls"
So I took the shotgun off the wall and I fired two warning shots... into his head.
--Cell Block Tango, "Chicago"
The mayor is a player. The mayor is a player.
--Susannah, who played Mayor Shinn in the Music Man. We decided that the quartet was gay, and everyone was having affairs. It was fun.
Alma: And there I was in the Madison Hospital and nobody come to visit me. Cousin Will never come. Aunt Bertha never come...
Ethel: Your Aunt Bertha’s dead.
Alma: She wouldn’t have come anyway.
--The Music Man
Marcellus: You’re not back in the band business! I heard you was in steam automobiles.
Harold: I was.
Marcellus: What happened?
Harold: Somebody actually invented one.
--The Music Man
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only 500.
--Harold, The Music Man
Homeless people do not wear fuzzy pink bras!
--Overheard by Renata at Rent
You may have seen him in the blockbuster "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace", but probably didn't as he was not in that film.
--Joshua Greene's "Who's Who in the Cast?" for RENT
He was recently seen in a Turkish Pantene shampoo commercial.
--Cary Sheilds' "Who's Who in the Cast?" for RENT
Hey, are you new here? Or are you just somebody else with a new name? Do you have a name? Is it Bob? Can I call you Bob anyway? And most importantly: do you like Rent? (The musical, not the concept of paying to borrow or inhabit something.)
--Renata
Tee hee, you naughty little boy! Say.. ever wonder just why Mark is under the blanket in Contact? And, um, why he takes his camera with him? I mean, I know "Mark's in love with his work", but...
--Renata, RENT
See, imagine how I felt. I mean, I've always wanted to know what the heck he was doing, and then I got close enough seats to see that he still had his camera...I bet he's just.. taking a nap. And using his camera for a pillow. Yes. Yes, that's it.
--Renata, RENT
If life is a Broadway musical I want to date Mark ;-)
--Renata
I personally am almost never without my RENT dog tag. It's quite the conversation starter.. "What's RENT?" "Oh, it's about [blah blah blah]" "Oh. My. God. ::runs in fear::"
--Renata
He's just jealous of my gay hero!
--Renata
Paul: How do you feel today?
Gordon: Ok.
Paul: Is that all?
Gordon: Best I felt all year.
Paul: Then why choose fear?
Gordon: I'm a New Yorker! Fear's my life!
--Life Support, RENT
I love this song. I'm Maureen. But not a lesbian.
--My sister Melissa, regarding "Take me baby or leave me" from RENT
I'm Mark Cohen for Buzzline...Back to you, Alexi. Coming up, vampire welfare queens who are compulsive bowlers.
--Mark, RENT
Maybe they’re dressing. I mean what does one wear that’s apropos for a party that’s also a crime?
--Mimi, RENT
Pierre Angelo Bayuga (Angel) made a good drag queen. (I bet he’d be thrilled to hear that...)
--Renata. You can read her full review here.
I wish I had a table like that. I'm pretty sure mine would break if I danced on it and had a mock funeral for Bohemia on it.
--Renata, regarding the table in the song "La Vie Boheme" from RENT
"Finale" was great (All Mark-centric songs tend to be..), but "Your Eyes" wasn't as good as I was expecting. (Nasty Roger understudy).. but I digress.
--Renata
It's like I'm being tied to the hood of a yellow rental truck, being packed in with fertilizer and fuel oil, pushed over a cliff by a suicidal Mickey Mouse.
--Over the Moon, RENT