Theatrical Quotes - Page 3

• My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

  Grace Jones

  Kings, Dad, Father

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• For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

  Penn Jillette

  Technology, Light, Magic

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

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• My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.

  Jessie J

  Girl, Attitude, Eight

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

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• The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Actors, Knighthood, Stuff

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• Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.

  Mel Gibson

  Nice, Home, Dark

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• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  Lady Gaga

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Brother, Cousin, Children

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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• My parents were not theatrical at all.

  Jane Asher

  Parent

  "Jane Asher: this much I know". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

  Bela Lugosi

  Art, Years, Degrees

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• In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

  Gustav Mahler

  Drama, Admire

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• George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forwar, and, in a theatrical whisper, said, 'My past is tragic. I wouldn't want to burden you with it. It's a pain I must suffer alone. In the rain. In silence.

  Ilona Andrews

  Pain, Rain, Eye

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• Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bones about the fact that I steal from here and I take from there, and we all do it, that's perfectly all right, that's the nothing, there's nothing new in the world, there's nothing actually new in the way that you do something, but the point is is how do you take something and use it to articulate what is essentially a core of any given theatrical production.

  Simon McBurney

  Mean, Artist, Theatre

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• Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper. In my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrit9.

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, Believe, Library

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• How does Parker’s body compare with yours ” Great. A pop quiz I thought recognizing his transition into lecture mode. “How does Parker’s body compare with mine Hmm.” I gave Parker a quick theatrical once-over and he smiled clearly catching on to my line of thought. “Nice legs and killer biceps. But I have better boobs. No question.

  Rachel Vincent

  Nice, Catching On, Transition

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• I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

  Robert Smith

  School, Makeup, Thinking

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• The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare

  Martin Esslin

  Reality, Theatre, Embodiment

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• It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.

  John Zorn

  Mean, Interesting, Events

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• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Achievement, Add, May

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• Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.

  Johnny Weir

  Beautiful, Costumes, Skating

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• Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

  Eli Roth

  Goal, Release, Distributors

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• I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

  Edward Norton

  "Edward Norton - not appearing in a cinema near you" by Nev Pierce, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2011.

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• We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary.

  Michael Moore

  Needs, Documentaries, Huge

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• It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jobs, Clown

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• Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

  Beah Richards

  Culture, Racist, Theater

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