Theatrical Quotes · Page 4

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

— Michael Moore

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

— Danny Glover

I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

— Patti Smith

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

— Eric Hoffer

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

— Ricky Jay

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

— Felicity Jones

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

— Chuck Panozzo

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

— Robert Ludlum

“Ever theatrical, Jackie also viewed the home as a grand set: a malleable, working stage on which to play out the daily…

— Shelly Branch

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

— Anonymous

I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!

— Terry Gilliam

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical…

— Beah Richards

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

— Octavio Paz

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my…

— Gregory Harrison

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

— David Bowie

Oh, yeah, I like a high neck. And I like naked backs. It seems very sexy. Red carpets are about being a…

— Eva Green

From musicals to plays, I was part of all things theatrical all through my school life in Chandigarh, and this helped me…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up,…

— Hermann Hesse

If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner'…

— Ray Bradbury

I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into…

— Lanford Wilson

I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, 'I'm…

— Rob James-Collier

Julie Taymor. She is my gold standard of stage directors. I think she has a comprehensive knowledge of theatrical form, since she…

— Harry Lennix

Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had…

— Errol Morris

I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I…

— Ariel Pink

In an old model, the way a film would imprint itself on the public's consciousness is to get a theatrical run. But…

— Thom Powers

I didn't want to be on screen not nailing an American accent. It's an insult to an American! There are plenty of…

— Brenton Thwaites

The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the…

— Edith Durham

I look for gravitas and substance that can outlast the theatrical experience.

— Dia Mirza

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

— Penn Jillette

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

— Robert Lepage

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

— Bradford Dillman

“Poetry is emotional in nature and theatrical in operation.”

— Philip Larkin

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Edward Burns

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

— Ralph Ellison

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

— Christian McKay

'Maury' and 'Jerry Springer' get so theatrical that it's hard to believe.

— Joel McHale

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

— Francine Prose

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson