Best 231 quotes in «dramatic quotes» category

Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up.

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.

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 am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

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

I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.

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 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 know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.

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.

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.