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

Marcel Marceau

Inspiration, Simple, Deceitful

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It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

Jim Woodring

Drawing, Stories

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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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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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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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The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.

Steve Aylett

Horse, Amusing

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I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

Karl Lagerfeld

Life Is

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It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

Mel Smith

Sweet, Cows, Comedy

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