Dramatic Quotes - Page 3

• Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Movie, Drama, Book

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• I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.

  Ivan Reitman

  People, Actors, Bills

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• You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

  Terry Southern

  Girl, Boys, World

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• Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

  Bob Woodward

  Motherhood, Government, Play

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

  Maria Jeritza

  Lying, Real, Singing

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• What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

  Ridley Scott

  Play, Long, Tolerance

  Interview with Caffeinated Clint, moviehole.net. October 16, 2005.

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

  Shelley Berman

  Teaching, Writing, Program

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

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• I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

  Casey Kasem

  Voice, Cartoon, Would Be

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• With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Cities, Long

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• I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

  Jay Roach

  Pieces, Genre, Including

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Character, Dramatic Situations, Opera

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• To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

  Katharine Anthony

  Bars, Construction, Biographers

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• We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Real, Dramatic Situations, Want

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• Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

  Norah Jones

  Fun, Distance, Thinking

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• True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Drama, Character, Greatness

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• It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

  James Toback

  Lying, Dramatic Life, Giving

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• There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  Harold Pinter

  Art, Hands, Challenges

  "Art, Truth & Politics". Harold Pinter's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 2005.

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• Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

  Chuck Jones

  Happiness, Art, Laughter

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• The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, College, Men

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• I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Art, Thinking, Scare

  "An Interview with She & Him's Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward". BlackBook Interview, bbook.com. March 5, 2010.

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• 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.

  Neil LaBute

  Emphasis

  "A Kinder, Gentler Neil LaBute? Getting Romantic With 'Possession'". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2002.

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• In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

  Jessica Savitch

  Real, Events, Seems

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

  Sally Ride

  Anxious

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• After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Roles, Hollywood, Cracks

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

  Lillian Hellman

  Writing, Cost, Guilty

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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