Top 498 Theatrical Quotes & Sayings

Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.

Anything I do is as theatrical as I can get it.

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.

It's too theatrical not to express yourself constantly.

I did theatrical caricatures.

Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.

I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique. It's perfect. It's beautiful. It's well done. But it lacks the theatrical tradition that is so important in England. At the Royal Ballet, absolutely everyone on stage seems to be caught up in the plot.

'Maury' and 'Jerry Springer' get so theatrical that it's hard to believe.

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

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

One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and as pretentious as that might sound, there's a real reason for it. It's not the idea of tricking you; it's the idea of taking you along on this particular journey the way you would in any other theatrical situation. But, hopefully, you're going to be fooled at the end.

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

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

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

My parents were not theatrical at all.

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

It is always wonderful to have a theatrical release; lot of filmmakers desire that.

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

For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked that much. I'm very interested in character, obviously, but once I started having my plays produced, I became so fascinated by the theatrical experiment and the weirdness of theatrical space, so now all my plays start with space and stage picture and setting - or container is maybe the better way to put it.

I like to drum for various theatrical things.

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

Theatrical experience will always be the norm in India. In fact, as a producer and as an actor, I always hope that the magnum opus theatrical experience should always continue.

I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous pride in being wildly different from one role to the next. That's the tradition I come from.

It's easy to get a theatrical release that shows in one theater for a week. But there's no advertising, and no one sees the movie. It's hard to get a real theatrical release. The distribution of independent films is, to me, extraordinarily frustrating.

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

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

I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.

We're entertainers. We're theatrical.

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

My family is very theatrical.

I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.

'West Side Story' is one of the greatest theatrical experiences I've had.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

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

I was an odd mixture of quite theatrical and shy.

I look for gravitas and substance that can outlast the theatrical experience.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.

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

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

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

When I started, every film got a full theatrical distribution. Today, almost no low budget films, maybe two or three a year, will get a full theatrical distribution. We've been frozen out of that, which means they must be aware that for a full theatrical distribution it either has to be something like Saw or some exploitation film of today or an extremely well made personal film.

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.

People ask me questions like, "Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you're like when you walk down the street?" It's like, "Of course not." It's such a silly question - it's like being theatrical is a crime.

A theatrical release is not possible for a short film.

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

I was always very theatrical. I went to theater school in a conservatory program.

In an old model, the way a film would imprint itself on the public's consciousness is to get a theatrical run. But now there are more documentaries and more films in general being released than ever before. There are weeks when the New York Times is reviewing 15 films, so it's harder to leave an impression on the public. A lot of these films are seeing their financial future on digital platforms. Because viewers aren't hearing as much about films in theatrical release, I think the festival circuit is going to have increasing importance for the life of a film.

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces.

There's no place more theatrical than history.

I think we push theatrical boundaries.

It's almost like I get to be more theatrical when I work in voiceover.

I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

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

To me, diva means an extraordinary, outrageously theatrical, brilliant performer.

I was always a theatrical kid.

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