Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Tyler

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Allison Janney

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Anna Garlin Spencer

The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.

Andrew Stanton

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Andrew Lincoln

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

Andrea Anders

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

Andre Leon Talley

I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Andrew Davies

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

Andrew Davies

I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.

Andrew Davies

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

Andrew Davies

The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.

Andrew Davies

From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.

Andrew Davies

I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.

Anthony Hopkins

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

Alison Brie

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.

Alison Bechdel

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

Andy Kaufman

Theres no drama like wrestling.

Andrew McMahon

You can't control what goes on around you, you can't. But for me, I think there's staples of these moments, that crazy moment where you think you're indestructible. That moment where you find out that you're not. And then that moment where all of a sudden you go, okay, I'm not indestructible but I'm gonna be okay. You have this life, and we all have these lives we live but it takes a bit of learning before you realize not every drama's going to kill you and not every hard day has to lead to another one.

Amy Pascal

Because all the movies that we tell ourselves we can't make - ballets, westerns, dramas, everything that are the hardest things to make - those are the movies that are not only winning awards which is fantastic, but also those movies that are commercial. We won't see a fascinating season like this for a while.

Amy Poehler

I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

Allen Tate

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

Allegra Huston

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

Alison Pill

The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

Alison Pill

One of the great things about this cast is that we've been able to take actors of relatively the same age group that would never usually meet. You know, like bridging the comedy/drama world that for some reason casting directors never really want to bridge or you get into one community and that's kind of it.

Ann Macbeth

The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

Andy Burnham

We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over

Amanda Burton

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

Amanda Burton

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

Robert Gottlieb

What I love about Paul's work is the combination of the endless invention with a strong dramatic imagination.

We take our drama where we are asked,

What you're seeing is the drama genre, which has been dominant, needing to diversify. Unfortunately, they've all diversified into science fiction.

Dale Robertson

Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.