Awareness is learning to keep yourself company
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
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.
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.
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.
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.
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.
The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.
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. "
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.
It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.
How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.
