Theatrical Quotes · Page 4

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

— Bela Lugosi

Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

— Tucker Max

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

— Kate Burton

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

— Denis Leary

“I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility”

— H.G. Wells

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame

— Ethel Merman

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

— Kirsten Dunst

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing…

— Missy Mazzoli

It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a…

— John Zorn

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I…

— Kate Hudson

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and…

— John Eaton

Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the…

— Trip Hawkins

I was a theatrical kid, but my parents were overprotective. When I expressed interest in show business, they shut it down.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up…

— William Beckett

When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us…

— Kate Bush

My mum was an actor until she started having children. I was the first child, so in a way I was the…

— Henry Lloyd-Hughes

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the…

— Bille August

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together...…

— Keira Knightley

The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience…

— Tom DeLonge

Even though I'm not actually performing in the works, I love the theatrical and have this fan relationship to showbiz. And one…

— Jack Pierson

Sometimes people confuse contrivance and authenticity, and sometimes I think authenticity can get in the way of a good excuse to do…

— Johnny Marr

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about…

— Tippi Hedren

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that…

— Rex Stout

If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But…

— Eleanora Duse

Evangelion is like a puzzle, you know. Any person can see it and give his/her own answer. In other words, we're offering…

— Hideaki Anno

To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when…

— Eric Hoffer

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

— Sarah Caldwell

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

— Courtney Love

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

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces.

— Ridley Scott

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

— Lance Loud

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

— Rob Corddry

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

— Julie Taymor

I was always very theatrical. I went to theater school in a conservatory program.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

— Gerard Way

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

— Domenico Gnoli

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

— Philip Larkin

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