Dramatic Quotes - Page 12

• 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.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Interesting, Trying, Violence

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Tone Bell

  Skills, Comedian, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet - out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Spring, Character, Eye

  "A Portrait of the Writer". Interview with Mia Funk, tinhouse.com. February 10, 2015.

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• The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Mean, Emotional

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

  Philip Levine

  Imagine, Seventies, Hard

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

  George P. Baker

  Drama, Play, Literature

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• In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Thinking, Views, Play

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• How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.

  Josh Gad

  Thinking, Hands, Trying

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• Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Character, Views, Stories

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• It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

  Terry Goodkind

  Character, Sound, Fiction

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• Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.

  Ethan Hawke

  Drama, Actors, Right Now

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• There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Country, School, White

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• I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Girl, Boys, Littles

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• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  Zola Jesus

  Vocabulary, Expression, Pieces

  Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.

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• I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.

  Andrew Lincoln

  Country, Men, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.

  Tom Harpur

  Religious, Easter, Spring

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• I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Doubt, Acting, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Evan Peters

  Watches, Comedy, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.

  Evan Peters

  Drama, Silly, Thinking

  "Evan Peters Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, Establishing His Character this Season and Working with Jessica Lange and James Cromwell". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2012.

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• To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.

  Max Born

  Book, Writing, Science

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• Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.

  Lou Diamond Phillips

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.

  Margot Robbie

  Children, Watches, Use

  "Intimate Moments with Margot Robbie". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. March 30, 2015.

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• 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.

  Tate Taylor

  Character, Ifs, Steers

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• A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Nuclear Iran, Priorities

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• The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.

  Linda Lavin

  Writing, Play, Long

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