Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Lynn Rajskub

I don't think my acting was ever bad; I always knew that I could do it. But when you go to audition for a drama, they're very serious in the room, and I was used to being kind of goofy and having small talk.

Mike Birbiglia

I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.

Nathalie Emmanuel

I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants to play those dark roles and it's definitely true for me and I'd love to kind of challenge myself in any way possible.

Nate Silver

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.

Nathan Fillion

The secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.

Keira Knightley

I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.

Kathy Bates

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

Kate Burton

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

Adam Rayner

That's the great thing about university: you've got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school.

Terry Teachout

The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres.

It's an extremely dramatic reduction, but it's of something that in the first place wasn't very common. So, these stockings reduce a fairly small risk, to something tiny.

It's still a premier national research university with dramatic recognition on the international scene.

It's not a dramatic fallout, and I don't see any evidence of panic. It's much more of a gradual adjustment; people have to diversify a little more. It just slows things down a little bit.

Each person in the walk-through drama gets to walk this street of gold before they leave in the final scene. We even have the river of life and the Pearly Gates in this scene.

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.

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.

June Allyson

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

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.

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.

It's going to be very dramatic and very beautiful.

It's good to have some exposure to large growth in your portfolio independent of intraday dramatic moves.

It's because we've had such an explosive rise in heating oil prices -- I don't think we've ever seen such a dramatic increase in the spread between heating oil and crude.

Nikki Cox

There's a lot more room for error in drama. With comedy, if you mess up, you fall flat on your face. With drama there's a lot more room to play.

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.

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.