Theatrical Quotes

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

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

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

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?

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

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

I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out - I will gallop.

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

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 and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

I'm fascinated by documentaries, to begin with. Because of the nature of television, as opposed to theatrical, documentaries can be in this long form and take you on a journey.

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.

A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.

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

It's too theatrical not to express yourself constantly.

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

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

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

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

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

Its almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - Im a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

My family is very theatrical.

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore must be struck from the text.

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

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

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

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

I think I've always admired sort of dynamic filmmakers, which doesn't shy away from strong expressions. Which might be a little more theatrical at some points.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.

My parents were not theatrical at all.

For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and rhetoric in public in a melodic and flashy way, was a bit of a risk.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

Well, it is quite daunting, but I made my first appearance on the stage when I was nine, because I went to a theatrical school, because I wanted to be an actress since I was eight.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces.

When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this concert setting of individual songs into the theatrical narrative piece.

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.

Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!