Dramatic Quotes - Page 35

• I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

  Eliza Coupe

  Monsters, Want, Comedy

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

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• Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

  Alan Cumming

  People, Done, Film

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

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• I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Doors, Feet, Acting

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2006.

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• Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Karma, Letting Go, Laughter

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• A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.

  Nunnally Johnson

  Should, Screenwriting, Shows

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• I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg

  Thinking, People, Stuff

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

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• I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.

  Don Most

  Comedy, Wells

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• I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

  Amy Seimetz

  Drama, Reading, Reality

  "Amy Seimetz Discusses Her Busy Year and Why She Hates Being Labeled a ‘Breakout’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 26, 2013.

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• I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.

  Maynard Webb

  Dedication, Impact, Entrepreneur

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.

  Peter York

  Character, Gay, Keys

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• Ultimately people don't watch shows because of how realistic they are. They watch them because of the same dramatic elements that have always made stories interesting. And fundamentally if those elements don't work, no amount of reality is going to be enough to keep people watching a show.

  Michael Loceff

  Reality, Interesting, People

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

  Megan Hilty

  Fun, Laughing, People

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in the play, so this relationship that he had with the former teacher, and his guilt, this is not at all in the play. I thought it would be interesting to look at in the film, and I added stuff like that around the main character. For me, it was not more difficult or less difficult.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Teacher, Character, Boys

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Exhibitions, Aversion

  Source: collider.com

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• Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Blow, Men, Weakness

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

  David Mamet

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  "David Mamet: Hollywood Conservatives "Legitimately Frightened For Their Jobs"". Interview with Megyn Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 11, 2013.

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

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, World, Excited

  "A Q&A with Bill Gates". Interview with Kristi Heim, www.seattletimes.com. September 25, 2007.

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• I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

  Laurence Olivier

  Believe, Dynamics, Firsts

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

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• I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.

  Demetri Martin

  Names, Wish, Would Be

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• Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation ofanything - except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting uprightin a chair and chewing gum simultaneously.

  Richard Schickel

  Taken, Reality, Sitting

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• Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Beautiful, Reading, Skills

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• [on making the transition from the comedy "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) to its dramatic spin-off series "Lou Grant" (1977)] We were really worried about changing over from a three-camera, half-hour comedy to a one-camera, full-hour drama. The audience wasn't ready for the switch - even CBS billed us in their promos as a comedy. In fact, the whole thing was impossible. But we didn't know that.

  Ed Asner

  Drama, Cameras, Transition

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

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• When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.

  Frank Lampard

  Thinking, Games, England

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• People are always surprised that I have a funny side because I'm usually so intense, strong and dramatic. But, I'd love to do something really, really silly and funny.

  Catherine Bell

  Strong, Silly, People

  "Catherine Bell Exclusive Interview Last Man Standing and Army Wives". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2011.

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• I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.

  Marti Noxon

  Writing, Actors, Pressure

  "Screenwriter Marti Noxon Exclusive Interview I AM NUMBER FOUR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 16, 2011.

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