Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hayley Atwell

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

Hilary Duff

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

Helena Bonham Carter

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

Helena Bonham Carter

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

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.

Jonathan Raban

One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.

Naomie Harris

I just feel incredibly lucky. I went to drama school and about 28 of us graduated. I graduated from drama school in 2000, and I would say about two of us are working and able to make a living out of it. It is a tough profession. To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

Orlando Bloom

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

Orlando Bloom

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

Olympia Dukakis

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

Olivia Colman

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

Oliver Stone

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

Oliver Sacks

The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music.

Oliver Sacks

To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.

Octavia Spencer

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

Michael C. Hall

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

Michael Caine

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Melina Kanakaredes

When youre the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.

Masi Oka

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

Mason Cooley

Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.

Mason Cooley

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

Michel Gondry

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

Michael Jai White

Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.

Michael J. Fox

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.

Mark Rothko

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.

Malcolm Turnbull

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

John Adams

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

Harvey Korman

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

Louise Bourgeois

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

The euro can go pretty far -- when currencies correct, they have a tendency to do that. But I don't see the recent move as dramatic or unexpected, and I don't think it's out of line with fundamentals.

James Levine

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.