Best 231 quotes in «dramatic quotes» category

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low-key 3D film.

I don’t know. After the downstairs, I assumed something creepier and dirtier.” I shrugged. “You didn’t have electricity down there.” “It’s for dramatic effect.” Loki gestured widely. “It’s a dungeon.

I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I feel more comfortable with it.

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

I found Celebrity Gangster intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.

I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.

I have a pretty fresh delivery. I feel that I am probably more of a dramatic actor, but I'm also a comedian. Every day I am polishing up my skills.

I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.

I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.

I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.'

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

I'm a fan of half-hour shows that can be both funny and dramatic.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure and dramatic gambits that work and things that are appealing both as a performer and an audience member, like you know, what does "want" really mean in a scene, and how do you achieve your want, and how is that expressed, and how do you achieve closure? Those are all things that I learned performing at the cabaret after just doing the same scenes over and over and over again over the years, with my own ability to change.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

I'm unbelievably claustrophobic, and I have really bad anxiety. There were a few moment when I was very dramatic and thought, 'I'm not going to live through this. I'm going to hyperventilate and just die. Right here in jail.'

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.

Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else’s romance? Or to have a romance of my own?

I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret's costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth's were.

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.

I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other.