Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emraan Hashmi

I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

James Belushi

I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.

Jacques Lacan

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

Jacky Ickx

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

Henry Beston

The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live...

Henry Beston

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

Paddy Considine

With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.

Paddy Chayefsky

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Philip Zimbardo

In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

Laura Linney

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

Lisa Unger

Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.

John Ridley

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

John Ridley

I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.

James Purefoy

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.

James Redfield

Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish.

James Redfield

When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated. That's the incredible high we call being ‘in love.’ Unfortunately, once they expect this feeling to come from another person, they cut themselves off from the energy in the universe and begin to rely even more on the energy from each other--only now there doesn’t seem to be enough and so they stop giving each other energy and fall back into their dramas in an attempt to control each other and force the other’s energy their way.

James Gunn

I really like people who can do both drama and comedy and not some like middle of the road do both drama and comedy. I'm not talking about some guy who does these bland dramedies all the time. I'm talking about people that have done heavy drama and who have done heavy comedy.

James Fenton

Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

Kurt Sutter

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

Kurt Sutter

The great thing about having a serialized drama (like 'Sons of Anarchy') is that I'm allowed to bring up events and circumstances that have happened in the past in other episodes to show that this kind of violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. It has ramifications. It has repercussions. Whether it's a week from now or five years from now, you know it will play out. Nothing is ever tied up into a perfect knot.

Leslie Mann

Comedy is hard to do, and I don't know why it doesn't have its own category in awards. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. It doesn't get respect. It's hard. It's really hard. It would be more gratifying to get something for a comedy, because it doesn't happen much or at all.

Leslie Mann

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

Jon Lovitz

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.

Jon Lovitz

In comedy, you have to do all of the same stuff you do in drama and then put the comedy on top of it. You, the actor, are aware of the comedy but the character is oblivious. And you have to have a sense of humor.

Jon Mead

If there's something you need to get done, don't make it a drama. It's much more enjoyable without it.

Johnny Vegas

I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.

Johnny Vegas

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

Johnny Weir

The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

Lynn Collins

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

Shayne Ward

I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.

Nicolas Cage

I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films.

Nicolas Cage

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.