Pantomime Quotes

• I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

  Marcel Marceau

  Destiny, Men, Light

  Wall Street Journal, November 19, 1965.

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• As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

  Ewan McGregor

  Falling In Love, Sex, Children

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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• PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Play, Stories, Violence

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.179, University of Georgia Press

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• I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.

  John Barrowman

  Children, Years, Theatre

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• Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Silence, Sound

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• It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

  Jim Woodring

  Drawing, Stories

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• Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

  Marcel Marceau

  Inspiration, Simple, Deceitful

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• Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

  Geneen Roth

  Awareness, Company

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• Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Affection, Caught

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

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• Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

  Geneen Roth

  Wish, Awareness, Compassionate

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• Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

  Bela Lugosi

  Speech, Language, Heavy

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• In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.

  Norman Wisdom

  Theatre, Facts, November

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue

  Guillermo del Toro

  Attitude, Actors, Dialogue

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• So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.

  Trevor Nunn

  Song, Play, Careers

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• How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.

  Mel Smith

  Cows, Satire, Rigour

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• When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

  Frank Bruno

  Sports, Jealous, Athlete

  "Q: Did you feel suicidal before you were sectioned? A: Nah, I'm not that brave or clever. I wouldn't know how to tie a rope, know what I mean?". www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2005.

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• I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel.

  Dorothy Gish

  People, Way, Comic

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• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

  Buster Keaton

  Art, Natural, Lost

  Buster Keaton, Kevin W. Sweeney (2007). “Buster Keaton: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.

  Michael Caine

  Laughter, Father, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Two, Quality, Fundamentals

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.26, Wesleyan University Press

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• I don't think that gay and lesbian relationships are identical to heterosexual relationships. I do think that heterosexual weddings, or at least most of them, are sort of camp pantomimes about male and female sex roles, even if the couple is marrying as individuals and equals.

  Dan Savage

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  Source: content.time.com

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• Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again - in pantomime.

  Wally Byam

  Home, Talking, People

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• Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

  Clive Rowe

  Theatre, Opera, Taste

  Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.

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• We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

  Bronagh Gallagher

  Home, Heart, Circus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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