Pantomime Quotes
35 quotes by 33 authors
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The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the…
— Julia Gillard
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They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.
— Buster Keaton
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How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.
— Mel Smith
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It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a…
— Mel Smith
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Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
— Charlie Chaplin
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And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good…
— Lord Byron
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As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage.…
— Ewan McGregor
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We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime,…
— Bronagh Gallagher
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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
— Guillermo del Toro
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PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have…
— Wally Byam
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Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience…
— John Barrowman
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We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union;…
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct
— Marcel Marceau
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I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel.
— Dorothy Gish
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It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
— Jim Woodring
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All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.
— Frederick Lenz
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I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.
— Kelly Brook
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Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
— Alan Cumming
Who Wrote These Pantomime Quotes
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