Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Jackman

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

Holly Hunter

I don't think that this family is odd. People may have greater or lesser elements of drama in their Thanksgiving Day. But I recognize these people.

I don't want to be too dramatic about the drop ? it's more or less profit taking. It's not severe in relation to the magnitude of the rise.

However, I don't see a dramatic drop ahead. The market had already priced in the rate increase.

Enrique Iglesias

One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then.

Emily Watson

When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

Emily VanCamp

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.

Jason Sudeikis

I'd love to do a drama.

Jason Statham

Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

Jason Segel

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

Jason Reitman

From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.

Jason Reitman

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

Jason Reitman

I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

Hillary Scott

If I've learned anything, it's there's just no drama, which is awesome. I've also just learned to read when it's a good time to talk about something serious and when it's not. And whenever I start to have a conversation with them, and I kind of see their eyes start to glaze over, I'm like, 'Okay, another time is better.' You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

Hilary Swank

I never know what my next thing is going to be, and I'm not out there specifically searching for one thing in particular. I'm just looking for something that's new and different. It could be a drama or a comedy, I just want to challenge myself and work with people that inspire me.

Eva Longoria

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.

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.

Ingrid Bergman

Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.

Because dramatic story telling has enjoyed a resurgence, the time is right to try a format like this.

Certainly, the game we didn't play very well was Kansas, but I've seen a dramatic improvement from a year ago.

Harrison Ford

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

Graeme Murphy

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

Glenn Howerton

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Romcoms are challenging, but I'm hungry for drama.

David Coulthard

I'm not sure it's as dramatic as it being the end of an era,

Clark Johnson

I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.

Robin McLeavy

I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.

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!''