Famous Quotes & Sayings

They don't (just) show up for four practices a week and a game on Friday and that's it. They are working all the time. Drama teachers have to be the same thing.

You can't listen to the news or watch the dramatic images of the effects of Katrina and not want to lend a hand,

Ben Nelson

There will be a rather dramatic shift from the typically dry months of March and April, to the rainy season that is underway by June.

There really isn't any dramatic news to come out post-Fed ? we're going to get into that earnings void, the next meeting for the Fed isn't until late June, so I think the story is how well the pullback in this market will be contained.

Harold Evans

It's a story of terrific heroism (with) many, many dramatic stories of individuals,

It was dramatic because of all the mud. We knew it was past the goalie, we knew it was going in, but it was just so slow. It looked like it just inched over the line.

Herman Melville

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

Eugene Ionesco

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

Eugene Ionesco

All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.

Ethel Merman

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

Florence Welch

I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.

Florence Welch

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

Flannery O'Connor

Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

Fiona Gubelmann

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

Henry Miller

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits the spectator to glimpse all phases of the conflict. Of itself Paris initiates no dramas. They are begun elsewhere. Paris is simply an obstetrical instrument that tears the living embryo from the womb and puts it in the incubator.

George Eliot

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

Gore Vidal

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

Gore Vidal

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

Gina Holden

I certainly do all sorts of work. I'm very, very blessed to do drama and other types of television, and things like that, but I always go back to sci-fi, whenever possible, because that's really exciting for me.

Gina Carano

There's so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics.

Gillian Jacobs

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

Gillian Jacobs

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

Harold Ramis

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama. There's a lot of bullshit drama that leaves you totally cold. And there's a lot of wasted comedy time too. But when you get something honest, it doesn't matter what label you give it.

Harold Ramis

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

James D'arcy

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

Jacki Weaver

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

Jackie Chan

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Iwan Rheon

I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too fast and too Welsh.

George Saunders

I was raised Catholic,I took from that was a sense of theater and drama, and also the idea that there were truths that couldn't actually be uttered directly but really had to be reached through ritual. You come out of those Masses so moved, and you're like, "Why did that happen?" And the truth of it is that it happened through an hour of highly enacted ritual.

Jenna Fischer

Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.

Jim Harrison

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

Jensen Ackles

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.