Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Banks

I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.

Roberto Orci

In school, you learn that there are only seven kinds of stories. There's man versus nature, man versus man, man versus himself, blah blah blah. So it doesn't matter what they're called. It's this: do you have a new story that fits into one of those things.

Meghan Merklein

Usually, it's the opposite. Usually, we're blah in the first half and in the second half, we pick it up. This time, it was different.

Anna Kendrick

I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

John C. McGinley

I don't want to be the guy who goes, 'Oh yeah, blah blah blah... everyone freaking well knows me.' Because that's not the case. Once in a while, someone will remember some silly thing I did and then they feel good. And they go, 'Oh, hey, Michael Bolton, I celebrate your whole catalog.' And I'm like, 'Great, great, I totally get it.'

Conor Oberst

In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly... I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible.

Olivia Cooke

I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'

Illeana Douglas

It is nice to do an independent film that can be a commercial hit. I think comedies do really well. I wish more independent films were comedies.

Dax Shepard

There's like a shift in the paradigm about every 15 years in movies because one would slip through the cracks. I think if they were more inexpensive you would see many more eclectic comedies being made.

Kevin Reilly

It's been a struggle to find that next evolution of comedy. Earl was our highest-testing show in 15 years, which was kind of a surprise. But we definitely need cutting-edge comedies like that.

Michael Cudlitz

I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-week format. I've enjoyed the few comedies that I've done, and I've enjoyed one-hour television.

Mariella Frostrup

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

Mike Birbiglia

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

Candice Bergen

Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will start reasserting themselves.

Mark Ruffalo

Well, it's actually funny and romantic, unlike many romantic comedies these days,

George Hickenlooper

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

Stacey Koerner

What you're seeing is the drama genre, which has been dominant, needing to diversify. Unfortunately, they've all diversified into science fiction.

Eric Anderson

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Tricia Helfer

Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!

Rick James

KISS hammered home the importance of high drama...I decided to design my show with the same goal; I wanted my fans to remember my show for the rest of their lives.

Reza Aslan

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

Vinnie Jones

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

Rebecca Eaton

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

Richard Rodriguez

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

Ang Lee

In a year when the Oscars have such an independent spirit, I really treasure this encouragement.

Joe Orton

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

Octavia Spencer

I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

Philippe Falardeau

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

Tobey Maguire

It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.

Herbie Hancock

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

Herbie Hancock

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

Jean Simmons

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.

Dennis Rice

People are saying that Toronto is more important than normal, ... No clear-cut Oscar front-runners yet.

Neil LeBlanc

I'll tell you I would have preferred having a francophone in that post. It would have been preferable.

Tori Spelling

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

Steven Bell

It was not bad. I have always preferred the cold.

Steve Mills

It's not the preferred style for enterprise-class operation.

Charlie White

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.