Sorry!

Sorry!  

A play for voices

      In the background playing softly,  ”I’m Sorry” by Brenda Lee

RETTA:  I met Robert Redford at the Golden Globes because he stepped on my foot. He stepped on my foot as he was walking by, and he was like, 'Oh, I'm so sorry!' And I was like, 'It's all right. Robert Redford can step on my foot.'

NINA TASSLER:  People step on my feet and I’m the one who  says “ I’m sorry.”

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO:   No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

MOLLY IVINS:  I’m sorry to say cancer can kill you, but that doesn’t make you a better person.

ROSE KENNEDY:  No one will ever feel sorry for me.

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG:  You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

DEAN MARTIN:  I feel sorry for people who don’t drink.  When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.

JOSE ANDRES:  I’m sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

WINNIE MANDELA:  I will never be sorry.  I would do everything I did again if I had to.

JAMES MAY:  I’m not very ambitious, sorry...I don’t get up and think, ‘Today, I shall achieve greatness.’  It’s more, ‘Today I might have Marmite on my toast.’

APRIL WINCHELL:  I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry.  And it really is the least I can do.

CHARLES OSGOOD:  Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

STORMY DANIELS:  I have two choices:  sit at home and feel sorry for myself or make lemonade out of lemons. 

DOROTHY McGUIRE:  I took it all for granted, I’m sorry to say.