Quotes About Kabuki

#1. I wore white kabuki makeup, had blue-black hair. At one point, I shaved an inch and a half around my hairline and continued the white makeup up so it made my head look slightly deformed. I thought it was hilarious.

Melissa McCarthy

#2. One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it's the theatrics involved. It's like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.

Brittany Howard

#3. I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

Nick Offerman

#4. A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

Stan Sakai

#5. Kabuki is the way that I so often write; Noh is how I would write if I were more 'spiritual,' more understated, or perhaps just older.

William T. Vollmann

#6. For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Rick Perlstein

#7. (Greek) Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and then, you know, we're part of an acting tradition and, and performance capture is no different.

Andy Serkis

#8. Which, of course, is how I developed my love for both Kabuki theater and marshmallow Peeps.

Jimmy Gownley

#9. Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.

Brian Posehn

#10. The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

John C. Maxwell

#11. Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis.

Big Daddy Kane

#12. Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

William J. Clinton

#13. God's love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God

Arsenie Boca

#14. You have good instincts,trust them. Thinking through every step is fine if you're playing chess, but this isn't chess.

Rick Yancey

#15. I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

Gerry Cooney

#16. Fans don't boo nobodies.

Reggie Jackson

#17. No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

Thomas Vernor Smith

#18. Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#19. How on earth could a complete stranger be expected to tease out the inner logic of something he himself had dreamed up, to find a way to make it come alive?

Han Kang

#20. I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.

John Key

#21. When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.

Cesar Chavez

#22. I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

Harold H. Greene

#23. Life is truly a miracle and must be protected, safeguarded and treasured.

Q.M. Herrera