Famous Quotes & Sayings

Uma Thurman

More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.

Robert Crais

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

Rob Riggle

When I approach villains, unless it's a drama, I'm a comedian, so I approach most things from a comedic point of view.

Rob Zombie

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

Rob James-Collier

I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!

Richard O'Brien

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

Richard Wright

It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.

Russell Brand

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

Robert Klein

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

Rob McElhenney

Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

Richard Linklater

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

Rian Johnson

There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you couldn't, if you were just doing a drama. It lets you maybe reach a little further and surprise people a little bit more because there's still that little safety base of working on that genre that everybody loves.

Rebecca Eaton

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

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.

Tracy Morgan

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

Roger Ebert

It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

Roger Ebert

From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.

Rod Taylor

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

Robin Morgan

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

Sasha Grey

Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

Sarah Wayne Callies

What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and different costumes, every week. people are really mining the ability of storytellers to tell a long form story that goes from A to Z, and to trust that an audience will follow that. If they miss it, over the course of the week, they can watch it online or buy the DVD. There are so many different ways of interacting with it. Storytelling in television is getting more complex and more nuanced.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

On a radio drama, I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr. Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non-white.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

Samuel Johnson

From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.

Willa Cather

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.

William Butler Yeats

Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?

Walter Hill

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.