Theatrical Quotes - Page 9

• Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, Negative, Nuclear

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• Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

  Bradford Dillman

  Names, Phony, Bradford

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• I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?

  Chuck Panozzo

  Catholic, Church, Ritual

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

  Jan Morris

  Country, Australia, Expectations

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn't do if your life depended on it.

  Robert Benchley

  Eye, School, Men

  Life Magazine, April 14, 1921.

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• The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.

  Tom DeLonge

  Couple, Angel, Play

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• That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Retirement, Solitude, Desert

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.135

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• I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

  Courtney Love

  Play, Agents, Rats

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

  Camille Pissarro

  Beautiful, Lovely, Littles

  In a letter to his son Lucien, 26 July 1892, as quoted in "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 146, 1963.

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• I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

  Bille August

  Television, Four, Jerusalem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests, its inbreeding tendencies, its stifling atmosphere, its corroding influence. Once become

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Atmosphere, World, Inbreeding

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• When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life Is, American Life

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.53, Vintage

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• When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, America, Missing

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• Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

  Steve Vai

  Attitude, Emotional, Energy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.

  Edith Durham

  Italian, White, Long

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• We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

  Edwin Land

  Messages, Dramatic, Persuasive

  "Edwin H. Land : Science, And Public Policy" by Richard L. Garwin, November 9, 1991.

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• The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.... The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.

  Edward Said

  Europe, Orientalism, World

  "Orientalism". Book by Edward W. Said, 1978.

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• There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running, Sweet, Drinking

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.233

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• Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it suit the palate of the people? Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace represents the chief literary output.

  Emma Goldman

  Art, People, Creative

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.39, 谷月社

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• Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Simplicity, Style

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1270, Delphi Classics

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• The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  May, Recurrence, Repetition

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• The marrying of an actor and his whimsical and theatrical vision is very enjoyable, because he wants it to be filled with something honest, truthful, human, soulful, substantial.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Vision, Actors, Want

  "Jeff Goldblum Talks THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, Being Part of Wes Anderson’s Universe, Preparing for His Role and Its Challenges, MORTDECAI, and More". Interview, collider.com. March 20, 2014.

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• This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.

  Rob Corddry

  Nice, Bonus, Littles

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2006.

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• I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.

  Bernadette Peters

  Thinking, Years, Way

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• The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

  Philip Auslander

  Actors, Illusion, Brecht

  Philip Auslander (2002). “From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism”, p.33, Routledge

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