Dramatic Quotes

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.

I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.

It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.

Nothing is more dramatic than a well-placed pause.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

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.

Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.

There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think I can try to follow anyone.

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 don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.

I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, "You're only as good as you dare to be bad."

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

I don't have anything that dramatic as far as a performance goes. I've never participated in a show that ended in a fight in my memory.

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

I just wanted a really simple, dramatic way so that fans, people who were reading my comic, would be like, "This is something different." Just to flag it, almost.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

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

Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.

I think we're looking at the next major superstar in golf. Tiger has a flair for the dramatic and one of those smiles that lights up the screen.

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.

Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

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

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

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.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms.

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.

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

When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.

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

My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.