Dramatic Quotes - Page 39

• It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

  Beau Willimon

  Ambition, Thinking, Games

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• Each one is different. Each project is different. Some are silly, some are not. Some are more realistic, some are not. Some are overly dramatic, some are not. You've just got to try and find the thing that's most engaging and entertaining in whatever way, shape or form, and it's different every time.

  Colin Hanks

  Silly, Trying, Way

  "Colin Hanks and John Stalberg Talk HIGH SCHOOL, Stoner Comedies, Directing and Comparing Filmmaking to Parenthood". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Even if the dramatic scenes are really hard, if you're happy with what you have and it's been creative and you had a good time with the people you worked with, that's a good day.

  Ayelet Zurer

  Good Day, People, Creative

  Source: collider.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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• A lot of people don't see me as a funny character because I don't usually get to play them. I'm usually cast in the more dramatic roles, so it's been a really, really fun time playing her humor and her attitude. She's a complete tomboy, so I did a really intense study on men and how they relate to each other, in the way they walk and hold themselves and position themselves in the hierarchy, just in something as simple as a conversation.

  Angie Harmon

  Fun, Attitude, Character

  "Angie Harmon Interview RIZZOLI & ISLES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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

  Jonah Hill

  Taste, Comedy, Adore

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Writing, Actors

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Grandma, Character, Purpose

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

  Laurent Dubois

  Firsts, Revolution, Remember

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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• To me, always just - that scene is, like, so convenient. They never run out of bullets in action movies, unless it's at the most dramatic time possible.

  Seth Rogen

  Running, Bullets, Action

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• I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  E. M. Forster

  Emotional, Civilization, Tolerance

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Eye, Thinking, World

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