Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Leary

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

Edith Wharton

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

We're making money on the freighters at the moment, but not a dramatic return.

Ross Levinsohn

We're going to take some pretty dramatic steps to provide industry-leading safety.

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.

John Bolton

very dramatic news about the extent of Syrian involvement and involvement by top officials in the Lebanese government in this assassination.

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.

Jane Fonda

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

Arnon Goldfinger

Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument.

Nas

'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

Shane Koyczan

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

(Today) was quite speculative, quite frothy, you didn't have a lot of dramatic movement in any of the senior parts of the market today. If anything, some of them were selling off, for example Northern Telecom (now known as Nortel Networks).

Brandon Lee

I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.

George Cukor

From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.

Tommy Lee Jones

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

Sun Myung Moon

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.

Kelly McCreary

At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic - all of that stuff was just fun early on.

Dave Roberts

When you win a game in dramatic fashion, it kind of re-energizes you,

James Steinberg

Those are dramatic cases. Those are tragic cases.

There is a tremendous problem in entering a race with little more than four months before the primary, unless you have dramatic statewide name recognition.

There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.

Holliday Grainger

'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.

We were alarmed to find such a dramatic increase in drug resistance in circulating human influenza viruses in recent years.

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.

Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual.

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.

Kapil Sharma

People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

Lykke Li

I'm always looking for silhouettes that seem 'invisible' to the eye, as in that it's so well-tailored to your body that you won't even notice what you're wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way.