Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Golding

I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

Tim Blake Nelson

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

Tim Cahill

My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort.

Victor Davis Hanson

Stop seeing socialists and anti-Americans as Democrats. When a Michael Moore compares beheaders to our own Minutemen and laments that too many Democrats were in the World Trade Center, he deserves no platform alongside Wesley Clark or a seat next to Jimmy Carter or praise for his pseudo-dramas from high Democrats.

Victor Hugo

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

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.

Jennifer Ehle

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

Jennifer Capriati

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

Jeff Tweedy

I don't know where people get the idea that every Wilco record is supposed to have drama. OK, I guess historically speaking we've had our fair share of ups and downs.

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.

Jim Beaver

Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.

Jeff Daniels

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

James Buchan

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

Franz Grillparzer

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

Jeff Abbott

Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer today—all the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is going—and write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success.

Jeannette Walls

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

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.

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.

Evelyn Waugh

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.