“ When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release. ”
- Roger Corman- Copy
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“ The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it. ”
- John Adams- Copy
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“ Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable. ”
- Christian Wolff- Copy
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“ Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
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“ If this life be not a real fight in which something is eternally gained… it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect; I think he is a theatrical whore of the first quality. ”
- Sir Peter Hall- Copy
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“ Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete language to speak. I say that this concrete language, intended for the senses and independent of speech, has first to satisfy the senses, that there is a poetry of the senses as there is a poetry of language, and that this concrete physical language to which I refer is truly theatrical only to the degree that the thoughts it expresses are beyond the reach of the spoken language… ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
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“ There are so many talented actors in Hollywood that never get a chance to work, and it's not because they can't do it - it's because it's a very uncomfortable, unsettling, non-theatrical environment to get a job. ”
- Jerry Doyle- Copy
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