Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Tracy Morgan

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

Uma Thurman

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

Uma Thurman

More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Rebecca Hall

You either are a good director or you're not.

Norman Lear

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

Orson Welles

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Oliver Stone

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.

Mike Figgis

I had no plans to be a director.

Scarlett Johansson

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

Shirley Booth

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

Dan Glickman

Kansas is not going to become the Hollywood of the future. But the film studios are looking to make quality stories, interesting stories, all over the country.

Sam Simon

I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

Johnny Grant

his vigor and passion for Hollywood that's just so infectious and so important.

Robin Wright

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

Robert Redford

It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.

Sarah Paulson

No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.

Robin Thicke

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

Winona Ryder

There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!"

Nick Cave

I just sat down and banged it out in the spirit of those old Hollywood guys.