Quotes About Pantomime

#1. 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.

Ewan McGregor

#2. 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.

Mel Smith

#3. 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.

Julia Gillard

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

Bela Lugosi

#5. I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

John Lasseter

#6. Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

Marcel Marceau

#7. 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.

John Barrowman

#8. 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.

Iris Murdoch

#9. To the three men in gray coats and golden buttons just cresting the hill, the pantomime was a strange one. The speck of green merged with the gray, and the black with the flash of red, as they shot off toward north.

Katherine Rundell

#10. I certainly enjoy doing pantomime-y things, but I didn't have any specific training in it.

Rob McClure

#11. Conceive a canvas for a lyrical or fairytale buffoonery, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown everything in an abnormal and dreamy atmosphere, - in the atmosphere of the great days. - It must be something soothing, - even serene in its passion. - Regions of pure Poetry.

Charles Baudelaire

#12. You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

G.K. Chesterton

#13. Yet there are moments when I feel a continent apart, when their belonging seems easy and unforced and my own is only pantomime.

Nayomi Munaweera

#14. 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.

Buster Keaton

#15. It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

Jim Woodring

#16. Because I used to go and watch him rehearsing for pantomime, and I have adopted some of those priciples, like try to be on time, learn your script, how he approach it, etc.

Dennis Brown

#17. IT is some years now, since we first conceived a strong veneration for Clowns, and an intense anxiety to know what they did with themselves out of pantomime time, and of the stage.

Charles Dickens

#18. 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.

Frank Bruno

#19. Baru raised her hand to smash the wineglass. Checked herself, checked even her trembling, and stood there in absurd pantomime, too firmly in control of her anger to move, too deeply angry for anything but stillness.

Seth Dickinson

#20. All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

Frederick Lenz

#21. My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat!

Celia Imrie

#22. The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.

Steve Aylett

#23. My mother never criticized any idea I had. She thought anybody could have anything. Even if I was in a poor family that worked at Ford Motor Company and lived in Dagenham. I could have told my mother that I wanted to work in pantomime. And she'd have said, "Great. I can help you."

Scott Raab

#24. PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

Ambrose Bierce

#25. There is nothing, no sound, and we are thinking very unhappy thoughts as we kneel down and perform our watery pantomime one more time.

Jeff Lindsay

#26. 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.

Trevor Nunn

#27. And he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes

Edith Wharton

#28. When a hypothesis enters a scientist's mind, he checks it by calculation and experiment, that is, by the mimicry and the pantomime of truth. It's plausibility infects others, and the hypothesis is accepted as the true explanation for the given phenomenon, until someone finds its faults.

Vladimir Nabokov

#29. 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.

Charlie Chaplin

#30. Then he smiles and I smile. And then I blush and he lowers his eyes, and it's like this entire pantomime of nervous gestures.

Becky Albertalli

#31. How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.

Mel Smith

#32. Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

Alan Cumming

#33. You've got to admit it's a bit of a pantomime, though," said Crawly. "I mean, pointing out the Tree and saying 'Don't Touch' in big letters. Not very subtle, is it? I mean, why not put it on top of a high mountain or a long way off? Makes you wonder what He's really planning.

Neil Gaiman

#34. 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.

Norman Wisdom

#35. I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

Karl Lagerfeld

#36. I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

Donald Sinden

#37. Ghosts ... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.

Anne Tyler

#38. Who can ... guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#39. A lot of actors won't do things because they say it is boring when you are always working. A lot of them won't go on tour, a lot won't do pantomime. I think you should do everything.

Victor Spinetti

#40. We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.

Rachel Tucker

#41. 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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#42. Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again - in pantomime.

Wally Byam

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

Guillermo Del Toro

#44. We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

Bronagh Gallagher

#45. I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

Simon Cowell

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

Dorothy Gish

#47. Was asking what the difference was between mime and pantomime and no one would say.

Garrison Keillor

#48. 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.

Didi Conn

#49. The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths.

Laura Lam