Theatrical Quotes - Page 6

• When I first started out on the soap, I was more theatrical, like a stage actor, a little bigger than life. As I did more and more Love Of Life, I became more natural. I learned the value of underplaying. It was a great training ground for me. There was a big difference in my style of acting from where I started with that show and where I ended, and where I ended was a good jumping-off point for doing nighttime television and movies.

  Ray Wise

  Love Life, Style, Training

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• The Conquest is not a film about Nicolas Sarkozy - it's a film about political conquest. It's a Shakespearean expression, where we have all the elements of a drama, both political and personal at the same time. The decors and the costumes are all based on real photos - I wanted to be as close to reality as possible. Nicola Piovani's theatrical music gives a distance that's almost Chaplinesque, there's something quite funny. There's no imitation, no caricature, no parodie - it's realism with a distance where the dialogues are often quite funny.

  Xavier Durringer

  Real, Distance, Drama

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm pretty unfussy when it comes to what a TV show should be, or what a movie should be. A lot of people are trying to maintain the theatrical experience for films. That's not really who we are or what we're about. We come from this fundamental understanding that we're just blessed that someone is giving us any money to make something in this town.

  Mark Duplass

  Blessed, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's standing in front of you waiving his arms. You now what he's doing. You don't know what the director is doing unless you know a lot about theater and even then you can only deduce it. You know it when you go to rehearsal. You really know it when they are rehearsing something of yours. I learned more in the rehearsals for The Letter than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

  Terry Teachout

  Art, Idiot, Invisible

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm very aware that the future of any film is not necessarily the theatrical experience, it's the home video experience because that is the one that is going to be presented for years to come. So you want to make sure that you push your movie, but you're talking about a movie that you finished months ago. And your head is trying to move into new grounds and you're still pushing for the other one. That's the tough element of it.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Moving, Home, Trying

  Source: ca.askmen.com

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• Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss is blue. An artist must go beyond the mercy of satin or water-from a gutty hue to that which is close to royal purple. All seasons and blossoms inbetween. Lavender. Theatrical and outrageous electric. Almost gray. True and false blue. Water and oil. The gas jet breathing in oblivion. The unstruck match. The blue of absence. The blue of deep presence. The insides of something perfect.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Lonely, Thinking, Artist

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• For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of theatrical convention that I realize I hate while I'm making it. So then the next play is always a rebellion. Or like, the thing I didn't even realize I was doing last time I will make sure I don't do this time. But there's always some other blind spot. And then that blind spot inspires the play that comes after.

  Annie Baker

  Hate, Play, Blind Spots

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

  Beah Richards

  Culture, Racist, Theater

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• The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare

  Martin Esslin

  Reality, Theatre, Embodiment

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• David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

  Lance Loud

  Gay, Boys, Expression

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• The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a couple of hours. In Visitors the cuts come every 70-plus seconds. The point of view is that the stiller one can be the more open to their senses they become. The whole world is quick right now. If things can be slowed down they stay in memory longer.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Couple, Memories, Mean

  "Interview: Godfrey Reggio Returns With the Breathtaking 4K Film 'Visitors'". Interview with Zachary Wigon, tribecafilm.com. January 24, 2014.

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• I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

  James Broughton

  Eight, Magic, Toys

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• It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Children, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.

  Edward Burns

  Brother, Distribution

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• I grew up doing plays - I went to a stage school after school - and it's always something that I've wanted to do, but, in a weird way, if you do television and film and you didn't go to drama school and don't have a theatrical background, it's hard to get your foot in the door. In the same way that it is for theater actors to get into television and film. There's a weird prejudice that goes both ways.

  Christian Cooke

  Drama, School, Prejudice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “Where’s the bathroom?” and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.

  Mindy Kaling

  Air, Deception, Exit

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• They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.

  Holly Black

  Mistake, Thinking, Kind

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes people confuse contrivance and authenticity, and sometimes I think authenticity can get in the way of a good excuse to do something theatrical. I just don't like wasting opportunity - if you're going to do a photo session, if you're going to walk on stage, why not make it interesting?

  Johnny Marr

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember one afternoon when we were out on a golf course somewhere, and Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon were sitting there in deck chairs when I went off to do another scene. And I said something like, "Hey, where have you guys been?" And they said, "Oh, we were down at the clubhouse. We saw your scene!" And Jack Lemmon looked at James Garner, and James Garner looked back at me, and then they both looked back at me and said in unison, "You bet your ass it is!" So I've been up there with the greats. I've had my fleeting moments with theatrical genius.

  John Heard

  Golf, Guy, Genius

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• I grew up watching old musicals and seeing Ginger Rogers wearing a beautiful fitted bodice that had ostrich feathers. I love how it moved when she danced. Theatrical pieces like that stayed with me. I wanted to grow up to wear those kinds of things.

  Gina Torres

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Kind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.

  Christina Milian

  Musical, Los Angeles, Annie

  "Christina Milian music maven". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out of six people in this city are starving? That's true, but that is only true because the conditions we live under are completely wrong - that should not be true, and it is. And in something like Sarah Polley's film, her fictions deliver so much truth. The retellings and the simulations and the theatrical aspects are what deliver all the truth.

  How to Dress Well

  Mean, People, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Teacher, Dad, Heart

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

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• At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Fun, Play, Space

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

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• I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life

  Kate Hudson

  Play, Parent, Important

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