Theatrical Quotes - Page 11

• I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

  Gregory Harrison

  Work, Play, Roles

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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 was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  School, Roles, March

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• There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love.

  Marie Dressler

  Thinking, Doctors, Actors

  Marie Dressler (1924). “The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts”, New York : R.M. McBride

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• It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me.

  Neil LaBute

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  "Revisiting with Neil LaBute". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2013.

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• I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do.

  Andy Biersack

  Stars, Kissing, Thinking

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• Growing up, I was the weird, theatrical kid who always tried to make people be in my plays. I've always loved comedy, but when it came time to figure out what I was going to go to school for, my parents were like, "Acting?! I don't think so. No." It took me a while to get the courage to pursue it. I had to do it in secret for a little bit, and then when I got married and was out on my own, I went for it.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Growing Up, School, Kids

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I think "Avatar" is kind of a unique category where people are enjoying the unique theatrical experience even though they may have seen it on the small screen. They want to have that immersive, transportive experience. "2001: A Space Odyssey" played for three years at the Loews cinema in Toronto. I remember that. It just kept playing. People wanted to return to that experience. That may not be the best example because I think "2001" took 25 years to break even.

  James Cameron

  Thinking, Unique, Break Even

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Integrity, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.

  Christoph Waltz

  Soccer, Hockey, Media

  Source: screenrant.com

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• A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.

  Ben Affleck

  Past, Bugs, Stage

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• Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

  Tucker Max

  Two, Variables, Distributors

  Interview with Rick Mele, www.askmen.com. November 23, 2009.

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• Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

  Christian McKay

  Looks, Film, Limitless

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• My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

  Kate Fleetwood

  Dad, People, Parent

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• A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. Its important to alternate between the two activities.

  Toni Servillo

  Character, Two, Giving

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• I'm very interested in trying to make comedy shows that are a bit bigger, more theatrical, more of a "show." Some people might say I'm trying too hard, but that's a compliment to me. I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.

  Bo Burnham

  People, Trying, Littles

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!

  Terry Gilliam

  Creative, Ridiculous, Cheerleader

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds.

  Michel Ocelot

  Moving, Games, Play

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The revolution of video had a massive affect. We grew up in a time where suddenly you could own films. Before, they had a theatrical run, and then perhaps they'd come back, or you'd catch them in a retro cinema.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Video, Cinema

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.

  Willem Dafoe

  Beach, Fun, Interesting

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.

  Philippe Petit

  Sky, Creating, Space

  Source: collider.com

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• It's almost like I get to be more theatrical when I work in voiceover.

  Virginia Madsen

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.

  Jim Morrison

  Mass Culture, Rocks, People

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• The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

  Thomas Campbell

  Baby, Boys, Mind

  Thomas Campbell (1834). “Life of Mrs. Siddons”, p.227

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• Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer is like, and you did this long theatrical performance instead, and I'm very disappointed."

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Careers, Long

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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