Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Cage

I just try to keep it fresh. I try to keep it interesting. The truth is my roots are independently spirited dramas that are small, and I will always go back to that well, because that's where I broke out of. But I'm going to keep doing as many different movies as I possibly can.

Nick Frost

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

Nora Ephron

[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.)

Niels Bohr

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

Nicole Kidman

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

Miranda Richardson

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

Mireille Enos

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

Johnny Knoxville

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

Pete Carroll

The green jerseys and the whole thing ... it's something we'll never forget, ... It was just very dramatic ... exciting as it can be.

The key is to get on basic. We'll see a dramatic rise in the number of homes that the NFL Network reaches.

Robert Thompson

These are old procedural dramas dolled up for the new century, ... 'CSI' is the new 'Quincy, M.E.' Bruckheimer is good at using old-fashioned television storytelling techniques in the era of 'Lost.'

Eric Hoffer

Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

Missi Pyle

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

Peter Andre

I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I was happiest at lunchtime, playing with my friends. But I love science now, that's the funny thing. And I'd be so good at geography, as I've been fortunate enough to travel the world.

Megan Gallagher

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

Meghan O'Rourke

Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

Max Irons

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

Matthew Weiner

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

Matthew Lewis

As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama.

Matthew Lewis

I never went to drama school.

Matthew Lillard

There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.

Matthew Lillard

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

Matthew Lillard

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

Matt LeBlanc

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

Mayim Bialik

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

Any estimates now will be quite preliminary and subject to dramatic change.

Anna Maxwell Martin

As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.

Kenneth Tynan

A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.

The oil market is possibly at that dramatic stage near the end of a big run, when price swings tend to be very dramatic, and the euphoria and panic levels are at extremes.

The more dramatic effect was in 1998 and 2000. There was a growth in Latino and Asian- American registration rates and a maintenance of the higher levels of voter participation.

Dramatic difference. I've even dropped a pant size and haven't dieted, haven't exercised.

Ron Meyer

There's a shrinking number of dramatic stars who can guarantee an opening-weekend audience. They must be in the right vehicle at the right time.

There's been this dramatic rise in interest rates recently, and it's sent a shiver through the market.