Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Ondaatje

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

Michael Imperioli

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.

Ralph Adams Cram

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

They've seen dramatic increases in sales, not only in kids meals, but in our restaurant sales as well,

Chris Rock

When you make drama you are like Picasso. Drama is whatever you want it to be.

Chris Noth

I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.

Chris Hemsworth

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do

Herman Melville

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

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.

Frank Oz

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

Frank Oz

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

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.

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.

Greil Marcus

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

Gregory Maguire

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

Ian Mckellen

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.