Theatrical Quotes - Page 5

• Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sweet, Eye, Gentleman

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• The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then: "Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!

  Eva Ibbotson

  Son, Games, Rose

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Play, Novel, Backgrounds

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• Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.

  Adam Lambert

  Stars, Hook, Littles

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• Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

  Denis Leary

  Acting, Actors, Sugar

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• When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with "No Cure For Cancer."

  Denis Leary

  Cancer, World, Cures

  "Denis Leary on 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' comedy, and life after 'Rescue Me'". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.ifc.com. July 31, 2012.

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

  Marilyn Manson

  Jobs, Clown

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

  Michael Moore

  Needs, Documentaries, Huge

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• One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.

  Neil Strauss

  Acting, Band, Directing Movies

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.186, Canongate Books

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• Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and the public sees us. The theatrical illusion is shattered if we ask what goes on behind the scenes. In real life discovery and justification are almost always different processes.

  Peter Medawar

  Real, Science, Discovery

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!

  LeAnn Rimes

  Eight, Texas, Different

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• The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.

  Judith Malina

  Art, Independent, League

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• Evangelion is like a puzzle, you know. Any person can see it and give his/her own answer. In other words, we're offering viewers to think by themselves, so that each person can imagine his/her own world. We will never offer the answers, even in the theatrical version. As for many Evangelion viewers, they may expect us to provide the 'all-about Eva' manuals, but there is no such thing. Don't expect to get answers by someone. Don't expect to be catered to all the time. We all have to find our own answers.

  Hideaki Anno

  Thinking, Offering, Giving

  "About Neon Genesis Evangelion". Newtype in Protoculture Addicts #43, 11\96,

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• I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere.

  William Mapother

  Independent, Numbers, People

  "William Mapother Exclusive Interview ANOTHER EARTH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2011.

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