art, Art, and Aart

Af. Am. Theatre and Culture
"Do you know this film? Can you look at it again? Well you'll have to."
-Robbie, re. Get on the Bus

"That's why I'm in theatre. I can't count."
-Robbie

"Be like OJ without a while girl!"
-Get on the Bus

"A gay, black republican. Now I know I've seen everything."
-Get on the Bus


Directing I
"So much Norwegian information on day one..."
-Courtney


The Artist and the Making of Meaning
"I only know about four things."
-Steve Shipps

"Anything but Bill, actually."
"Okay, Frank."
-Liam, Steve Shipps

"I am old and you are not. But if you could overcome that and call me Steve, that'd be good."
-Steve Shipps

"It doesn't have to be any less stupid than that. That's the exact amount of stupid it should be."
-Steve Shipps

"The two or three of you who know this already can sleep now."
-Steve Shipps

"Rabbits' ears, you bozos, don't stand up. Hares' ears stand up."
-Steve Shipps

"I am nothing if not cool."
-Steve Shipps

"Don't mock my Art-Taste."
-Steve Shipps

"We're not doing this much longer, so if you're already screaming inside yourself for a bottle of Mydol, hang on. It'll all be over soon."
-Steve Shipps

"If you call me Mister-Doctor-Professor Shipps, I'll know you're pissed off at me. And we'll go from there. Otherwise.... don't call me any of that nonsense."
-Steve Shipps

"How's that for pretentious?"
-Steve Shipps

"I don't know what's true, what isn't true. Well, maybe two or three things, tops."
-Steve Shipps

"There is no question too stupid."
-Steve Shipps

"But as you'll see, you could do (the homework) in a coma. Just do the damn things."
-Steve Shipps

"One guy wrote me forty pages once. Pissed me off, but it was a wicked good paper."
-Steve Shipps

"Your ass is grass, as we say in academia. And I will beat you up."
-Steve Shipps

"Stay until the Museum Wearies bring you to your knees."
-Steve Shipps

"Chachtkes is the greatest word in the history of the world."
-Steve Shipps

"You have no idea how uncomfortable a novel can make you."
-Steve Shipps

"That's the name of the frigging course. Now if that were me, I'd say 'Hmm. Sounds important. I should show up.' Please do."
-Steve Shipps

"There I'll be, merrily reading forty blue books. Shit."
-Steve Shipps

"You're gonna leave here on top of the world."
-Steve Shipps

"One of the five or six smartest people in the history of the world. Excluding yours truly."
-Steve Shipps

"And then we'll start talkin' about stuff in November."
-Steve Shipps

"We'll go home and eat dead birds."
-Steve Shipps, re. Thanksgiving break

"That is to say, I will be here holding class. If you were not to show up... what could I do?"
-Steve Shipps

"A good man... but an odd one."
-Steve Shipps, re. Disability Services Coordinator Dr. Anthony Bashir

"If you know the answer, shut up."
-Steve Shipps

"It's getting worse every year."
-Steve Shipps

"Here's something to bemuse you while I'm gone."
-Steve Shipps

"Truly, none of you know what you're doing here? (silence) Do you know how much you're paying to be here? (silence) Holy shit. Never fails to amaze. Okay, I'll tell you why you're paying money to sit over there and listen to me talk at you for an hour and forty-five minutes two days a week. Art."
-Steve Shipps

"This course is so basic it's embarrassing."
-Steve Shipps

"Of course you know that now that you've met me, it's gonna be an incredibly hip course."
-Steve Shipps

"Whether you're an actor or a talking head. Whatever your major is."
-Steve Shipps


33 Bowdoin Street
"I gotta go shower."
"Why?"
"I like to be naked."
-Me, Heidi