Famous Quotes & Sayings

The knock-on effects to the International Space Station are quite dramatic ... (long delays) could potentially be a show-stopper for the whole thing.

The Fed made a dramatic move today and it was needed,

The fall (in the gold price) was triggered by the dramatic drop in oil prices, prompting investors to rethink the safe-haven sparkle of gold.

These two individuals have been running the show for quite a while, and they work together well. They've done it for years, and I don't think, from an execution perspective, it's a dramatic shift.

Shawn Levy

In all my movies, there's always a kind of heartfelt element, to be able to do a drama and to be able to spend more time in the emotional stuff with no pressure to get back to the funny that's very liberating for me.

Sarah Waters

I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing.

John Hurt

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid $75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

George Romero

I hung out at a local film lab and learned how to use the tools. I grew up in B&W... all serious, meaningful things were in B&W! If you trace TV, the serious dramas were in B&W, and I think it's a holdover from those of us who were working then who think B&W was good.

Elaine Paige

I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.

I'm thrilled with the way our team has come in her and played to win. It's a dramatic shift from last year when we played not to lose.

Not everybody gets better on this form of treatment, that's one thing we'd like to emphasize, but those who do often have very dramatic improvements.

It's very dramatic and for what we're doing the style of the space was important to us.

James Wolk

I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.

It won't be a huge dramatic bursting, but it will be felt this year.

They've seen dramatic increases in sales, not only in kids meals, but in our restaurant sales as well,

There should not be any drama and there is no drama.

E. O. Wilson

I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other playwrights or reading other plays, because I haven't done much of either of those. Again, you have an intuitive sense that this is dramatic or a nice shape to a scene; you intuitively know how to tell a good story... where the highlights are, what information to withhold, and how to reveal things.

Robert Webb

I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.

John Bolton

very dramatic news about the extent of Syrian involvement and involvement by top officials in the Lebanese government in this assassination.

Dianne Wiest

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

Diane Warren

I'm not like normal people. I'm no good at relationships. I draw drama to me - it's the Jew in me.

We expect modest growth in November and dramatic growth in December,

Dwayne Johnson

The goal with me, and the way I challenge myself as an actor, is to go from genre to genre. I like that. A lot of actors always challenge themselves. But for me the challenge lies not only in getting better, but going from drama to comedy to action or whatever the case may be, and having a wide array of movies in terms of my filmography.

Cayden Boyd

I just finished an episode of a new show called 'Century City.' It's like 'Law & Order' set in the future, and I have a very dramatic role in that. I have to sob and weep and wail. It was very hard. When it was done, I was like, 'OK, time to watch 'SpongeBob!''

Scott Anderson

If the Legislature passes USTAR and funds it as being requested, this will set off an explosion that will have a dramatic impact and a dramatic return to our state and to our economy.

Jack Lemmon

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

J. G. Ballard

A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

J. G. Ballard

The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But through the effects of TV and interactive video systems and so forth, we'll also have the freedom to pretend to be a mass murderer for the evening. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer controlledthe TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

Ira Glass

...uncorny, human sized drama

Jack Nicholson

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

Jack Nicholson

Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, “Maybe it works,” but in comedy, when you're doing it, either it works or it doesn't. You have to keep doing it until it does, and the requirement is more.

Jacinda Barrett

I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.

Jack Black

I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.