Words matter. These are the best Bye Quotes from famous people such as Terry Teachout, Dan Quinn, Margot Kidder, Kevin Richardson, Julien Baker, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you’re looking for light entertainment, you can’t get much lighter than ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n’ roll to small-town America.
I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
We didn’t have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
I wasn’t originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.
The thing that is comforting about being a touring musician is whenever I say bye to my friends, I’m like, ‘I don’t know when I’ll see you again but it’ll be sooner than I think and if it’s not soon then it won’t matter.’
When I first came into the league, we went 13-3 with a first-round bye, and I said, ‘OK, this is how the NFL goes. This is cake. I’ll have a Super Bowl trip every couple of years.’ That’s what I thought.
It’s exciting being around people who are adults – I actually race out the door in the morning and shout, ‘Bye!’
We did a lot of high school productions. My first was ‘Twelfth Night.’ I played Viola. We did ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ and ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ and a lot of musicals: ‘The Wiz,’ ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ ‘Oliver.’
The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
Bye weeks are nerve‑wracking.
Why should I have to say bye to one thing to do another? I can do lots of things at one time, and as much as I love to do films, I’d love to do ads as well!
I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‘No. No, I’m finished. Bye.’ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.
The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‘Bye!’
I’m not a singer. In ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during ‘Put on a Happy Face.’
Yeah during the bye week I watch games. I usually do something with my family. We’ll go away for a couple of days or something, but I definitely watch football on that Sunday afternoon.
I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, ‘Baby I Don’t Care’, was a hit, and the second, ‘Bye Bye Boy’, reached the Top 20.
I met my wife in 1990 when I was on the national tour of ‘Bye, Bye Birdie.’
The first role that I played as a musical – I was 14 years old, and I played Birdie in ‘Bye Bye Birdie.’ That was an awakening of, ‘Wow, I’m good at that. People are responding.’ And I hardly knew what I was doing back then, but there was something that people were seeing.
When I auditioned for ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ on Broadway, Gower Champion said, ‘You’ve got the job!’ I said, ‘Mr. Champion, I can’t dance.’ He said, ‘We’ll teach you what you need to know.’
I spent the summer of ’88 indoors, writing ‘Shoot You Down,’ ‘Bye Bye Badman,’ and ‘Don’t Stop.’
Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it – I wanted to be on Broadway.
Today, youths say ‘Hi and Bye’ even to their parents. Instead, they should touch parents’ feet as a mark of respect.
My logic used to be if I get angry at my boyfriend, he could say, ‘Well, if that thing I do that I don’t want to stop doing makes you mad, I don’t need to be with you. Bye!’ And then he’d leave me. Forever.
When I was growing up, I had a nanny who would always play ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ so I was always listening to that stuff.
First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw ‘Bye, Bye Birdie,’ and everything changed. I’m glad I learned through the process of theater.
Any time you get a bye week you embrace it as a player.
My first audition ever was for ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ in fifth grade.
You always feel pretty good after a bye, after a couple of days off. Not having a game, you freshen up a little.
I’ll never say good bye to TV. I belong there.
I always watched these tournaments and want to be seeded and get the bye and be in the second week of Slams and all that.
Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.
I’d hate to think that the stereotypical American is someone who just says ‘Hi – bye’ in conversation. That’s how Europeans see us. And I’d like to think that not all of us are like that.
I’m always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn’t be able to say anything rather than, ‘How do you do? Love you! Bye!’
If I am angry, I am angry. If I am angry, then I have to be calm, and to be calm, I have to tell you to your face what I think about you. If we don’t agree, then okay, ‘Bye!’ It’s no problem.
In 1957, ‘West Side Story’ had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.
