Downsizing Dramatist Pillows

"At last! They've begun downsizing the top level."

"Objection, Your Honor! Alleged killer whale."

Scarpia from Tosca

'That was when I closed five distribution centres, mothballed a factory and sacked 3,000 workers.'

Tosca stabs Scarpia

"Less hair doesn't mean less work!"

Nikolai Gogol

Waiter: 'Your Tossed salad Ma'am.'

'The tax and tip I understand, but what's this charge for shipping and handling?'

House sale.

"I'll have what's left of my people get in touch with what's left of your people."

I Pagliacci

Trilby - The 'Rosemonde' of Schubert.

"It's a profit and loss statement. Read it with gusto!"

Interior Un-Decorator: We Help You Downsize!

"I play the husband, but am promised a speaking part next time."

"But first, if it please the court, Brunnhilde's farewell to Siegfried from 'Gotterdammerung.'"

'I'm playing a crowd member in the Easter pageant. I was going to play Pilate 'til I found out I'd have to wash my hands.'

She realised it would be foolish to start a diet with third cousin Rodney's retirement party due in only 12 years.

'... and I almost want to thank my pharmacist.'

"What will change my life?"

'I'm leaving this damn job at the end of the month.' - 'How did you find out?'

'Let's face it, we never got along. I'm just sorry it had to come to this.'

"Hi again. Can I just check whether you enjoyed me interrupting your meal five minutes ago to ask whether you were enjoying your meal?"

"Jane's internal monologue is 'Hamlet'."

"Waiter - this dish doesn't contain enough adjectives..!"

"I can't approve of your office gossiping, Frank...and after you tell me the latest I want it to stop!"

"I haven't had the heart to tell him vaudeville's dead."

"Here are Monsieur Limace, our sommelier, Monsiere Juron, chef de Cuisine and Mr Kruigshenk, specialist for the beheading of breakfast eggs."

'I'm five, but I can play three to seven and a half.'

"What makes you think I'm the whistleblower?"

"I'd like something smaller – something with fewer walls to defend."

Lucia di Lammermoor