Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Moyer

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

Stephen Moyer

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

Jo Brand

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

John C. Reilly

I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.

John C. Reilly

I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

The level of optimism does not suggest a dramatic acceleration in economic growth during the first half of 2003.

Quentin Tarantino

When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the page. That's all well and good, but it is going to be a limited perspective at that point and time. Occasionally, what I write might read really well initially, but then you change your mind while hunting for locations when you discover settings which offer even better opportunities for drama or dramatic staging.

Tennessee Williams

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.

Tennessee Williams

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

Richard Neal

The confirmation of full and final IRA weapons decommissioning will have a swift and dramatic impact on the Northern Ireland peace process.

Rebecca Hall

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

Rebel Wilson

I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

Robert De Niro

When you make a movie, everyone should leave their own personal problems at home. When they start bringing those to set, filming can be very difficult... You don't need any extra drama. Put the drama into the story, in the characters.

Robert De Niro

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

RJ Mitte

I wouldn't say in all situations, but a lot of times kids can be the most reasonable people around because they don't have the deal with all the drama that goes along with being an adult.

Richard Rodriguez

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

Melanie Lynskey

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.

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.

Montserrat Caballe

Drama if I sing, drama if I dont sing. What do you do?

Milan Kundera

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

Mila Kunis

When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.

Milan Kundera

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

Joseph Addison

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making...

Jose Carreras

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

Jorge Garcia

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

Jonathan Swift

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

Kenneth Clark

Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed - can even be enhanced - by description.

Kelli Berglund

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.

Kurt Busiek

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

Kevin Whately

I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.

Joan Chen

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

Joan Collins

What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.

Joan Collins

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.