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“A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.”

People Thinking Film Harder Cameras Theatre Superfluous Histrionic

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!”

Should Art Causes Results Behinds Effects Regret Fine Theater Intense Imperfect Memorial Fine Arts Transient Histrionic

Book:Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals

Source: Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals

“There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.”

“My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.”

People Mother Given Imagination Growing Up Growing Emotional Tough South Tension Touched Agreement Courageous Bullshit My Imagination Captured Charisma Eccentricity Quota Histrionic

Author:Willie Morris

“Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.”

Situation Shapes Behavior Intuition Enormous Surroundings Adjusting Great Gifts Histrionic

Author:Albert Speer

“Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.”

Ifs Fall Groups Worst Personality Dependent Disorder Narcissism Psychologist Narcissist Axes Clueless Antisocial Borderline Personality Disorders Histrionic

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.”

Trying America Life Is Europe Direct Sincere Histrionic

Book:THE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY: Their Wedding Journey, A Hazard of New Fortunes & Their Silver Wedding Journey: From the Author of Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Venetian Life, The Flight of Pony Baker & Boy Life

Source: THE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY: Their Wedding Journey, A Hazard of New Fortunes & Their Silver Wedding Journey: From the Author of Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Venetian Life, The Flight of Pony Baker & Boy Life

“I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.”

Way Want Interesting Emotion Singing Straightforward Histrionic

Author:Dido Armstrong

“Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.”

Ifs Made Stuff Waiting Remains Angry Passionate Insight Made It Heat Sufficient Offended Hardened Make Me Angry Histrionic

Author:Keith Olbermann