Dramatic Quotes - Page 4

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

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

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

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.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

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

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.

I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.

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

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

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

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

Maybe I just stay in relationships for too long and then they get really dramatic.

Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.

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

Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.

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.

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

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

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

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.

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear to be to others. Most of the time - when we aren't flat lying about something or playing a particularly stylized role in some heightened dramatic situation - this difference between the internal and the external is modest and manageable.

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.