Quotes with theatrical

  • Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
  • 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.
  • But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
  • Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
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  • Anna Pavlova Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Bradford Dillman Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.
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  • Anthony Trollope But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bela Lugosi Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • James Thurber From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Eric Hoffer Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Beah Richards Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
    Beah Richards
    American actress (1920 - 2000)
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  • Bille August He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Andrew Morton He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.
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  • Ace Frehley I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Barry Humphries In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Beau Willimon In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Dan Cruickshank In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - if totally different in form - from all the romantic architecture of the past.
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Camille Paglia Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Thomas Campbell 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
    Scottish poet (1777 - 1844)
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