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It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime. -- Jim Woodring
How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire. -- Mel Smith
Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte. -- Alan Cumming
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. -- Bela Lugosi
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct -- Marcel Marceau
The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice. -- Steve Aylett
Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. -- Ambrose Bierce
All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten. -- Frederick Lenz
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
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
Engvall: 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..." (pantomimes hitting his son) "We don't hit". He looked at me like, "Here's your sign, Dad". -- Bill Engvall
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. -- Marcel Marceau
I don't think that gay and lesbian relationships are identical to heterosexual relationships. I do think that heterosexual weddings, or at least most of them, are sort of camp pantomimes about male and female sex roles, even if the couple is marrying as individuals and equals... -- Dan Savage
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
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. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman. -- Lord Byron
I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator. -- John Lasseter
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it. -- Shia LaBeouf
My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us. -- Dan Stevens
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
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
All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten. -- Frederick Lenz
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
If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose. -- Clive Rowe

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