Theatricality Quotes

#1. People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff ... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.

Adam Lambert

#2. There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality ... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

Adam Lambert

#3. He knew almost as much as if he had read much.

Aphra Behn

#4. Scientifically, just because the spiritual person can manifest a drink of coffee, does not mean that he or she knows how it happens!

Richard Gentle

#5. I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

Adam Lambert

#6. I remember finding it extremely hard to open presents as a child because the requisite theatricality was too exhausting.

Marina Keegan

#7. I don't really consider myself a writer.

George Tillman Jr.

#8. Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

Jerry Saltz

#9. With the sun rising on the distant sea horizon, she could almost forget the braying of the donkeys.

Alexandra Brenton

#10. My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.

Bryan Batt

#11. Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

Ann Powers

#12. The longer I live the more I mistrust
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.
-from Transcendental Etude

Adrienne Rich

#13. Every incident in the Old Testament was considered to pre-figure in allegory what was to come in the New.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#14. Ever since it became theoretically evident that our precious personal identities were just brand-tags for trading crumbs of labour-power on the libidino-economic junk circuit, the vestiges of authorial theatricality have been wearing thinner.

Nick Land

#15. Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz.

Bassam Tibi

#16. When did Noah build the boat? - Before the rain.

Robert Redford

#17. I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.

Philippe Petit

#18. I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?

Sarah Stillman

#19. there may indeed be a place for using characters as examples to follow or avoid - remember, the biblical writers do it too - so long as it is practiced with an awareness of the Christcentered plotline of the Bible.

Michael R. Emlet

#20. I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job.

Mitt Romney

#21. Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#22. There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.

Neil Patrick Harris

#23. Though he'd never know for sure what had happened to them, his mind was super talented at imagining the absolute worst.

James Dashner

#24. Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not.

Thomas A Kempis

#25. Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don't think you can make your kids' dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.

Billy Crystal

#26. This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

George W. Bush

#27. I'm up for a massive, bombastic tour with hydraulics, robots, lasers, 15 costume changes, projecting on a power station, big impact, big visuals. I'd love to realize the theatricality of the whole thing. To be overwhelming, to surprise you, maybe to play in hidden spaces.

Anna Meredith