Dramatic quotes

Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.
-- Alexander Payne

#Life Is #Dramatic #Things Happen

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.
-- Ana Gasteyer

#Done #Way #Dramatic

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
-- Ang Lee

#Mother #Conflict #Dramatic

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
-- Ang Lee

#Stories #Love Story #Dramatic

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.
-- Ann Beattie

#Dramatic

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Dramatic

I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.
-- Barbara Pym

#Thinking #Hands #Dramatic

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
-- Bat for Lashes

#Dad #Dramatic #Spare Time

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

#Thinking #Shapes #Dramatic

I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.
-- Carmen Electra

#Dramatic #Loud

Nothing is more dramatic than a well-placed pause.
-- Carmine Gallo

#Dramatic #Wells

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones

#Strong #Black And White #Dramatic

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes
-- Chi McBride

#Sometimes #Dramatic #Entertaining

Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.
-- David A. Bednar

#Blessing #Law #Dramatic

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

#Differences #People #Dramatic

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.
-- Demetri Martin

#Batteries #Dramatic #Break

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role
-- Dinah

#Roles #Dramatic #Type

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

#Comedy #Dramatic #Wells

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
-- Edith Wharton

#Dramatic #Significance #Frivolity

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
-- Edward Norton

#Ideas #Dramatic #Relevant

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

#Trying #Facts #Dramatic

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.
-- Edwin Land

#Messages #Dramatic #Persuasive

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 #Dramatic

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

#Watches #Comedy #Dramatic

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

#Thinking #Fiction #Dramatic

We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.
-- Fred Astaire

#Respect #Actors #Dramatic

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.
-- Garrett Hardin

#Essence #Tragedy #Dramatic

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
-- George Orwell

#Business #Games #Dramatic

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
-- George S. Kaufman

#Rehearsal #Dramatic #Absent

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.
-- George Weigel

#Bombs #Dramatic #Theological

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
-- Gordon Allport

#Tubs #Facts #Dramatic

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.
-- Gus Van Sant

#Trying #Film #Dramatic

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.
-- Gus Van Sant

#Viewpoints #Dramatic #Life Death

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.
-- Harvey Keitel

#Roles #Weight #Dramatic

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous
-- Isabelle Huppert

#Way #Fields #Dramatic

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
-- Jack Nicholson

#Thinking #Fiction #Dramatic

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.
-- James Daly

#Historical #Sitting #Dramatic

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
-- James Frey

#Writing #Conflict #Dramatic

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.
-- James Mangold

#Keys #Film #Dramatic

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
-- Jane Fonda

#Dramatic #Situation

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.
-- Jane McGonigal

#Oil #Availability #Dramatic

A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.
-- Jane Pauley

#Dramatic #Wave #Mood

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

#Pieces #Dramatic #Genre

I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.
-- Jeff Daniels

#Roles #Done #Dramatic

The only advantage to wearing glasses is that you can do that dramatic removal.
-- Jim Gaffigan

#Glasses #Dramatic #Advantage

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.
-- Joel Surnow

#Good Movie #Dramatic #Scene

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.
-- Jose Carreras

#Dramatic

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.
-- Kate Bush

#Computer #Dramatic #Obvious

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
-- Katharine Anthony

#Bars #Dramatic #Construction

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.
-- Kathryn Bigelow

#Looks #Dramatic #Peak Experiences

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.
-- Ken Curtis

#Roles #West #Dramatic

I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.
-- Kimberly Elise

#Sexy #Dramatic #Glad

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.
-- Kurt Sutter

#Wife #Cartoon #Dramatic

Never underestimate the power of dramatic lips.
-- Laura Mercier

#Lips #Underestimate #Dramatic

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.
-- Leon Panetta

#Impact #Climate #Dramatic

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.
-- Leslie Mann

#Auditions #Dramatic #Comedic

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.
-- Lisa Randall

#Light #Dramatic #Speed

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.
-- Lukas Foss

#Ideas #Together #Dramatic

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy
-- Marc Andreessen

#Dramatic #Economic #Economy

We live in this world where loosing our phones are more dramatic than loosing our virginity.
-- Megan Fox

#Phones #World #Dramatic

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.
-- Michael C. Hall

#Dramatic #Stage

I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
-- Molly Shannon

#College #Actors #Dramatic

I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.
-- Natalia Kills

#Eye #Lips #Dramatic

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Heart #Men #Dramatic

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.
-- Neil LaBute

#Dramatic #Emphasis

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a ***** addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
-- Nick Hornby

#Needs #Dramatic #Being Human

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone
-- Nick Hornby

#Dramatic #Being Human #Enough

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Character #Dark #Dramatic

Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.
-- Noah Emmerich

#Actors #Comedy #Dramatic

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
-- Oliver Stone

#Trying #Doe #Dramatic

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
-- Oliver Stone

#Dramatic

I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.
-- Owen Wilson

#Roles #Dramatic

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.
-- Peter Mandelson

#Space #India #Dramatic

Bold. Risky. Dramatic. I approve.
-- Rachel Vincent

#Dramatic

Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.
-- Renata Adler

#Garden #Air #Dramatic

I would love to work with Tom Hardy. Maybe do something crazy or dramatic that is different for me.
-- Ryan Guzman

#Crazy #Different #Dramatic

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
-- Sally Ride

#Dramatic #Anxious

I'm unbelievably claustrophobic, and I have really bad anxiety. There were a few moment when I was very dramatic and thought, 'I'm not going to live through this. I'm going to hyperventilate and just die. Right here in jail.'
-- Shannen Doherty

#Jail #Anxiety #Dramatic

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

#Teaching #Writing #Dramatic

Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do
-- Sherilyn Fenn

#France #Passionate #Dramatic

My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.
-- Stephanie Mills

#Practice #Spirituality #Dramatic

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
-- Steven Levy

#Revolution #World #Dramatic

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 #Dramatic

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.
-- Tracy Chevalier

#Important #Littles #Dramatic

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.
-- Viva Bianca

#Father #Dramatic #Theatrical

Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.
-- Walter Rodney

#People #Revolution #Dramatic

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.
-- Will Arnett

#Roles #Dramatic #Wanted

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.
-- Woody Allen

#Tragedy #Tennessee #Dramatic

I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I feel more comfortable with it.
-- Woody Allen

#Comedy #Dramatic #Feels

Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.
-- Allen Wier

#Memories #Remember #Dramatic

Within the framework of something very dramatic, funny things happen. Organically, from them.
-- Gloria Calderon Kellett

#Funny Things #Dramatic #Framework

I found Celebrity Gangster intense, dramatic, a real page turner.
-- Irwin Winkler

#Real #Pages #Dramatic

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.
-- Leni Zumas

#Littles #Remember #Dramatic

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
-- Luke Grimes

#Art #Done #Dramatic

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.
-- Luljeta Lleshanaku

#Language #Dramatic #Temperament

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.
-- Maud Welzen

#Magazines #Dramatic #Novel

I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.
-- Norman Lock

#Favors #Dramatic #Confession

A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
-- Nunnally Johnson

#Dramatic #Should #Screenwriting

Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but I found I wanted to have more of a voice: to actually say something. I wanted to do something more personal over a long period of time, with more authorship.
-- Olivia Arthur

#Photography #Long #Dramatic

One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for a variety of reasons, but the short version is that there was a need to be stricter about the standards of proof, because certain familiar modes of reasoning had started to lead people astray, or at least threatened to do so.
-- Richard F. Heck

#People #Dramatic #Reason