Quotes of Theatrical - somelinesforyou

“ I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat. ”

- Bruce Dickinson

“ When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release. ”

- Roger Corman

“ The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it. ”

- John Adams

“ Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable. ”

- Christian Wolff

“ Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ 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

“ Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. ”

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“ If this life be not a real fight in which something is eternally gained… it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. ”

- William James

“ I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect; I think he is a theatrical whore of the first quality. ”

- Sir Peter Hall

“ Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete language to speak. I say that this concrete language, intended for the senses and independent of speech, has first to satisfy the senses, that there is a poetry of the senses as there is a poetry of language, and that this concrete physical language to which I refer is truly theatrical only to the degree that the thoughts it expresses are beyond the reach of the spoken language… ”

- Antonin Artaud

“ I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised. ”

- Amy Lee

“ I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ There are so many talented actors in Hollywood that never get a chance to work, and it's not because they can't do it - it's because it's a very uncomfortable, unsettling, non-theatrical environment to get a job. ”

- Jerry Doyle
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