Best 231 quotes in «dramatic quotes» category

A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

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

A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality

Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.

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