Kabuki Theater Quotes & Sayings

Four inches
The difference between life and death for you tonight was four inches. — Tiffany Snow

But don't they look like apes, now, fighting over a female? Even if the female is named Liberty. — Thomas Pynchon

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

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. — John Peter Zenger

I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be. — Christine Quinn

I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy? — Cassandra Clare

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

(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

He was to become the lawmaker for the poor and the downtrodden and the oppressed. He was to be the bearer of at least a measure of social justice to those whom social justice had so long been denied. The restorer of at least a measure of dignity to those who so desperately needed to be given some dignity. The redeemer of the promises made by them to America. "It is time to write it in the books of law." By the time Lyndon Johnson left office he had done a lot of writing in those books, had become, above all presidents save Lincoln, the codifier of compassion, the president who wrote mercy and justice in the statute books by which America was governed. — Robert A. Caro

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough. — Domhnall Gleeson

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn't imagine it if it weren't real somewhere, sometime. — Terence McKenna

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest — Robert Louis Stevenson

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away. — Ralph Fiennes

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

I've always believed there are moments in our lives which can be defined as a transition between the before and after, between the cause and the effect. — Benjamin X. Wretlind

Which, of course, is how I developed my love for both Kabuki theater and marshmallow Peeps. — Jimmy Gownley

[ ... ] I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied. — Osamu Dazai

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity — Bill Bryson