Best 231 quotes in «dramatic quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic 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 developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.