Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donny Most

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'

I think my first understanding of the significance of Gibson's home run is the drama of what he did that day, as hurt as he was, that being his only at-bat. And if you saw him foul those pitches off and how gimpy he was, it was an incredibly heroic kind of at-bat, if you can use hero in sports,

Antonya Nelson

I think maybe short stories operate in some of the same ways that poems do. They frame single or small moments and elevate those. They give you insight into more minor dramas maybe, dramas between smaller groups of people.

Joanne Harris

I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.

Jo Brand

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

John C. Reilly

I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.

John C. Reilly

I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

The level of optimism does not suggest a dramatic acceleration in economic growth during the first half of 2003.

James McAvoy

I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

James McAvoy

I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.

James Marsden

I know I have a face like a model. But I’m actually just a goofy drama nerd underneath.

James Mangold

There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one genre is to another. I think that westerns and samurai films and superhero films have a lot in common. It's just that the scale of the visuals in tentpole films can sometimes overwhelm the drama.

James Levine

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

John Drinkwater

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

John Michael Higgins

I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.

John Michael Higgins

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

John Milius

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

John Millington Synge

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

John August

I loved The Sarah Connor Chronicles that Josh did, and I loved that it was a family drama with a huge, different element. And this is also a family drama with a huge, very different element. I think he'll kill it. It will be great.

Joel Edgerton

Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

George A. Romero

It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract and allusive with horror, and it's very forgiving to the author. You don't necessarily have to take an absolutely positive position. You can just write whatever.

Geoff Stults

I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.

Gabriel Macht

Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

All these could have some impact at the margin, but I don't expect any to have a dramatic impact on the rate of increase overall.

Elaine Stritch

Drama drama drama. The public wants it, so let them get the whole ugly mess. Why not?

Edward Bond

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed

Edward Bond

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

Edward Bond

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

The market needs to consolidate for a while after recent volatility. It's unlikely to see any dramatic move next week if there's no big policy changes.

Holly Hunter

Drama is always conflict. Conflict either comes from within or without. The thing that makes a show different is the conflict manifests itself both internally and externally.

Herman Wouk

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

Joseph Addison

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making...

Jose Carreras

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.