"The silent film has a lot of meanings.……" — Pedro Almodovar
"The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion."
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44 Quotes by Pedro Almodovar
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I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the…
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Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they…
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Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time…
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I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the…
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
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All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.
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My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.
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Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are…
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I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.
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Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
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Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.
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Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the…
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I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of…
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from…
— Mickey Rooney
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It just seemed fitting to have our own lounge with our own dance review that paid homage to where The…
— Nicole Scherzinger
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Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles…
— Azar Nafisi
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Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something…
— Johnny Carson
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The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by…
— I F Stone
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A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be…
— Jerry Saltz
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I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part…
— Carmen Electra
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The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque…
— Dawn Powell
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