Theatrical Quotes - Page 12

• I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.

  Scott Cohen

  Struggle, Artist, Thinking

  Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com

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• When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.

  James Arthur

  Addresses, Worried, Natural

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Realization, May, Sacred

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• I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.

  Maria Bamford

  Attitude, Nice, Artist

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• In politics, it's very theatrical. There’s a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.

  Beau Willimon

  Believe, People, Creative

  "‘Ides Of March’ Screenwriter Beau Willimon Talks Political Vs. Oscar Campaigns & Why George Clooney Deserved More Oscar Nods". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 25, 2012.

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• Its almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - Im a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

  David Levithan

  Scary, Musical, Obsessed

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• The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

  Amanda Palmer

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Jeans

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

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• English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Italian, Needs, Dialogue

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• I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out - I will gallop.

  Miranda Hart

  People, Watches, Want

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• I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

  Kenneth Branagh

  Home, Ideas, Space

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• Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Moments, Profession, Present Moment

  Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1932). “Me and Mine: A Medley of Thoughts and Memories”

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• Theatrical work means too much work or none.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Mean, Too Much, Theater

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• I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

  Philippe Petit

  Wire, Poet, Stuntman

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• Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

  Sarah Caldwell

  Color, Voice, Opera

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• Guys who are larger than life and theatrical and deliciously unpredictable - they're far more interesting than the good guys most of the time. They have these psychological layers that an audience can really cling on to, become fascinated with, much more so than these true-blue, one-dimensional, square-jawed good guys.

  Ron Perlman

  Squares, Blue, Interesting

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

  Peter Weir

  Space, People, Stage

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• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Frustrated, Desire

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Running, Play, Creating

  "Science on stage: from profound theories to West End hits" by Marcus du Sautoy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2013.

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• It's always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they're going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.

  Nick Cave

  People, Trying, Risky Business

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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• The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Reading, Dust, Soul

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• If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!

  Eleanora Duse

  Movie, Art, Mistake

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• I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Children, Wife

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.177

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• I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.

  Woody Allen

  Real, People, Actresses

  "Woody Allen Discusses "Match Point"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. December 20, 2005.

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• Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Ignorance, Science

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (Volume 2 "On Various Subjects"), 1851, as translated by R. J. Hollingdale in "Essays and Aphorisms", 1970.

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• I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

  Francine Prose

  Thinking, Fiction, Dramatic

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