Pantomime Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dance, Moving, Men

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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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• Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fashion, Two, Mind

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• None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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• Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much artistry can still dazzle us in the manner of the circus or sports arena translated to a higher plane. Though the perfect blend of the two elements is the consummation devoutly to be wished, the real enemy of good ballet is not the slight preponderance of one or the other but the prevalence of pantomime--the turning of dance into second-rate theater.

  John Simon

  Sports, Strong, Real

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• And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.

  Lord Byron

  Angel, Nymphs, Ballet

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• I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

  Simon Cowell

  Pride, Mind, Kind

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• People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.

  Clive Rowe

  Thinking, People, Needs

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

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• If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that 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. I doubt that you would read a close friend's early efforts and, in his or her presence, roll your eyes and snicker. I doubt that you would pantomime sticking your finger down your throat. I think you might say something along the lines of, 'Good for you. We can work out some of the problems later, but for now, full steam ahead!

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Eye, Thinking

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.31, Anchor

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• My mother never criticized any idea I had. She thought anybody could have anything. Even if I was in a poor family that worked at Ford Motor Company and lived in Dagenham. I could have told my mother that I wanted to work in pantomime. And she'd have said, "Great. I can help you."

  Scott Raab

  Mother, Ideas, Helping

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take on romance seemed vaguely ludicrous, as affected as a pair of spats. I no longer saw the point in 'getting back to normal', that pantomime of pretending nothing had changed; I wanted to evolve from sexual posturing into a deeper consciousness, that of love.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Love, Eight, Blood

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• The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

  Julia Gillard

  Plot Lines, People, Political

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• The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

  Iris Murdoch

  Magic, Theatre, Wonderful

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• Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, "Hey... We don't hit". He looked at me like, "Here's your sign, Dad".

  Bill Engvall

  Dad, Son, Yesterday

  "Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography". Book by Bill Engvall, 2002.

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• I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.

  Patrick deWitt

  Heart, Night, Thinking

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.37, Granta Books

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• Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

  Alan Cumming

  Country, Calendars, Bigs

  "Cumming out on top". Interview with Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2003.

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• All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Mirages, Phantoms

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• My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

  Didi Conn

  Summer, Teacher, Jobs

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• If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose.

  Clive Rowe

  Mother, Ideas, Would Be

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

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• Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the language filthy and the audience screamed behind you'' as tackles hurtled in like boulders crashing down a mountain-side. Such was the epic drama that gripped the Emirates yesterday. A derby crammed with sound, fury and significance ended with everyone grasping for breath, with Arsenal regaining the high ground of the Premier League... This was the Premier League at its raw, mistake-filled, mesmerising best. Utterly compelling.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Mistake

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• I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

  Kelly Brook

  Kids, Theatre, Stage

  "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.

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