Top 25 Pantomime Quotes

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.

I saw Marti Pellow in pantomime in Glasgow one time.

This whole thing has become a pantomime.

I remember being an usherette at my local theater very, very early on, selling ice cream and programs – because they’re not free in the U.K. – during pantomime season, which was super interesting. It meant a lot of kids, a lot of sweets, a lot of sugar-induced kids.

When I’m not on tour, my band have to do pantomime. I want to do big gigs to earn them money.

I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn’t do it, I’d feel as though I was missing something.

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.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.

You dont mind booing through games. The crowd pay their money, and thats how you earn a living. I can take a bit of the pantomime villain. But if youre going for a double, thats when you should just get a little bit of respect.

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.

I’m a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

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.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.

I’m very proud that I can be myself. I’m not trying to be Arabic, I’m just being me, and I happen to be Arabic. I think that might be refreshing to some people, and it’s a bit more realistic than these pantomime villains we’ve seen before.

I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.

When you are doing pantomime, you’re not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep.

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.

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.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

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.

I’m actually quite a nice person. It’s to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I’m doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There’s obviously something that really gets them.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.

I’m no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I’ll emit an unbroken 10-minute ‘um’ through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.

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.