Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Ashley

drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.

Eliza Coupe

I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds.

Arthur Eddington

In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realization that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.

Anton Chekhov

Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.

Bella Heathcote

I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.

Aunjanue Ellis

Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.

Boy George

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

Bruce Greenwood

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Bruce Forsyth

I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.

Bridget Regan

I love action shows. I love drama. There's no one type of thing. Television has gotten so good, and there's so much to do.

Brenda Blethyn

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

Brenda Blethyn

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

Bradley Cooper

Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the same instrument, ideally. But I think that we all have the same comedic tendencies, and that's why it works. We all sort of agree with what's funny.

Bobby Darin

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

Bruce Nash

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

We're more than happy to profit from short-term fluctuations, and we think this morning's dramatic drop is very short-term,

With the large increase in workers in the extractive industries in our state, we've seen a dramatic increase in drug activity.

David Hume

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

David Bromstad

Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.

Ben Wheatley

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

Ben Stiller

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

Ben Stiller

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.

Denis Leary

I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.

Denis Leary

There's no way around it - drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.

Dee Wallace

I love drama. I love to play an arc.

Deepa Mehta

I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore

Deb Caletti

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

We're looking at the headline news, but the market is being supported by the girders of the economy, a basic, strong foundation, ... I don't expect a dramatic rally from here, but we are very much on track for a high-single-digit, low-double-digit total return for the year.

Rob Lowe

I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

Richard D. Zanuck

'Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.