Theatrical Quotes - page 6

I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays and worked a lot. Once the realities of living as a theatrical actor hit me, I realized I wanted to start making a little bit of money and not have to bartend and work in theater. (Zachary Knighton)

The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

Zola Jesus

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

Edward Burns

Theatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness.

Max Frisch

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!

LeAnn Rimes

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

Edward Norton

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

Umberto Eco

When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

Gary Gygax

I see the crisis like a theatrical play that concerns the world.

Vangelis

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.

Amy Lee

We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary. (Michael Moore)

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

Samuel Johnson

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.

Marilyn Manson

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.

Adam Lambert

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

Gerard Way

If I could change one thing about U.S. theater, theater companies would produce a wider, broader range of plays by women and men who fully represent the cultural complexity of twenty-first century U.S. culture. Theatergoers would then have access to a huge selection of diverse theatrical worlds that would challenge, entertain, delight and intrigue them...

Anne García-Romero

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

Charisma Carpenter

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

Amanda Palmer

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.

Amanda Palmer

I'm trying to make the theatrical experience an environmental experience.

Julie Taymor

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way. (Julie Taymor)

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ... A lot of what I do in theater is cinematic, and a lot of what I do in film is theatrical, but there are different rules to it.

Julie Taymor

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

Francine Prose

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

Camille Paglia

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

Mandy Patinkin

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