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

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor. — Anthony Hopkins

Vinnie and Hawk lounged in the theater lobby, blending in to the theatrical scene like two coyotes at a poultry festival. — Robert B. Parker

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

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people. — Patti Smith

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

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. — Octavio Paz

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. — Bela Lugosi

This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected. — Rob Corddry

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything. — Susan Choi

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers. — Mark Leyner

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical. — Dylan Moran

God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles. — Christina Milian

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

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical. — Ralph Ellison

I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous! — Terry Gilliam

In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work. — John Davidson

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano. — Liza Minnelli

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility. — Denis Leary

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script. — David Hewson

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights. — Penn Jillette

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that. — Johnny Weir

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals. — Samantha Bond

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates. — Todd Rundgren

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

What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact. — Tilda Swinton

I think theater ought to be theatrical. — Tom Stoppard

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

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. — Miranda Hart

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'. — Lady Gaga

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

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

Theatrical work means too much work or none. — Alec-Tweedie

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

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. — Aaron Sorkin

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

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage. — Gustav Mahler

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs. — Stephen Sondheim

Good behavior in the first place is more important than theatrical apologies afterwards. — L.M. Montgomery

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. Heaven may encore the bird who laid an egg. If — G.K. Chesterton

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

That's what I want. Real. No overly theatrical moans and fake-sounding orgasms. — Sophie Brooks

Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical. — Steve Wynn

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

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare — Martin Esslin

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life. — Bela Lugosi

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

For I never care to do a thing in a quiet way; it's got to be theatrical or I don't take any interest in it. — Mark Twain

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment. — Alec-Tweedie

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

Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course. — B.G. Bowers

In Ohio the seasons are theatrical. — Toni Morrison

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical. — Ricky Jay

The theatrical performance of politicians who profess to speak for an "American People" do nothing to highlight the history of poverty. — Nancy Isenberg

I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting. — Peter Jackson

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

Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it. — Terry Teachout

It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work. — John Sebastian

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

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

I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility — H.G.Wells

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School is like theater. Teachers are like directors, students are like actors, and classes are like theatrical presentations. — Victor Miller

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions. — Sarah Caldwell

I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings. — Woody Allen

You said you were good with people. And you seem to like ... theatrical ... clothing. He glanced at my tights, which were green and glittery. — Jojo Moyes

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

I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf. — Caleb Johnson

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it. — Toni Morrison

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true. — Edwin Land

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. — Philippe Petit

Poetry is emotional in nature and theatrical in operation. — Philip Larkin

It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place. — Jason Blum

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience. — Robert Ludlum

I love the smaller scenes. I love the smaller, slightly more theatrical scenes. — Martin Freeman

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

I always used to love couture because it was more theatrical than the runways. The runways always felt more like part of the machine. — Lily Cole

My family is very theatrical. — Debra Wilson

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

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer. — Liza Minnelli

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt ... — Antonin Artaud

If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical. — Dorothy Hamill

He once again pointed to that creepy theatrical smile. There were way too many teeth there. It made him look positively demented. — Richard E. Gropp

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward. — Parker Posey

My parents were not theatrical at all. — Jane Asher

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical. — Camille Pissarro

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames. — Andy Goldsworthy

The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces. — Ridley Scott

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person. — Viva Bianca

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

I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating. — Derek Hough

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.' — Denis Leary

David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style. — Lance Loud

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

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame. — Ethel Merman

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions. — Neil Tennant

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