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  • I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue

  • The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

  • Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

    Speech   Language   Heavy  
  • If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage. I doubt that you would read a close friend's early efforts and, in his or her presence, roll your eyes and snicker. I doubt that you would pantomime sticking your finger down your throat. I think you might say something along the lines of, 'Good for you. We can work out some of the problems later, but for now, full steam ahead!

    Believe   Eye   Thinking  
    Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.31, Anchor
  • None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

    Love   Heart   Eye  
    Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34
  • PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

    Play   Stories   Violence  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.179, University of Georgia Press
  • Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

    Art   Silence   Sound  
  • It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

  • When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

    "Q: Did you feel suicidal before you were sectioned? A: Nah, I'm not that brave or clever. I wouldn't know how to tie a rope, know what I mean?". www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2005.
  • The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

  • Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, "Hey... We don't hit". He looked at me like, "Here's your sign, Dad".

    Dad   Son   Yesterday  
    "Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography". Book by Bill Engvall, 2002.
  • I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.

    Laughter   Father   Years  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

  • As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

    Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.
  • Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

    Theatre   Opera   Taste  
    Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.
  • I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

    Destiny   Men   Light  
    Wall Street Journal, November 19, 1965.
  • Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

  • Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.

    Fashion   Two   Mind  
  • I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.

  • They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

    Art   Natural   Lost  
    Buster Keaton, Kevin W. Sweeney (2007). “Buster Keaton: Interviews”, p.100, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.

    Song   Play   Careers  
  • My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

    Summer   Teacher   Jobs  
  • Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157
  • It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

    Sweet   Cows   Comedy  
  • All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

  • I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel.

    People   Way   Comic  
  • Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

    Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.26, Wesleyan University Press
  • People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.

    Thinking   People   Needs  
    Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.
  • I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

    Kids   Theatre   Stage  
    "Kelly Brook" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2009.
  • In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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