Best 231 quotes in «dramatic quotes» category

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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 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 thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

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.

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'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.

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.

I was so frustrated with my whole life that I walked up this hilltop and screamed at the heavens. It was very dramatic - but then again, I am an actress - and I said, "Fine! I'll be a character actress! Just tell me what you want me to do!" I was so angry at the universe.

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.

I would love to work with Tom Hardy. Maybe do something crazy or dramatic that is different for me.

Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do

Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

Like behind the car or in the pub, to do a scene, a proper nice dramatic scene, it's always a treat. And they're usually shot as one, so you've got a big chunk of dialogue to learn, and you feel like you're working.

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.

Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.

Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.