Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Santayana

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

George Jean Nathan

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

Maria Callas

My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.

Kathy Bates

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

Kaya Scodelario

When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because they would see that I hadn't been to drama school and wouldn't want to see me. Now, I feel like it's changing. We have this new generation of a lot of writers, directors and actors who are just breaking through, and they're doing it for the passion.

Rachel Dratch

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

Lily James

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

Julian Fellowes

In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

Paul Davies

Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it as a brute fact....I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Chuck Palahniuk

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

Chuck Palahniuk

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

Chuck Connors

I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.

Angie Harmon

I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if you've got information and you want it out there, that is how you go about doing it. I get it.

Amy Adams

I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into.

Anthony Doerr

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Alonzo Mourning

I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.

Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Debby Ryan

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

Fede Alvarez

For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.

Christine Lagarde

It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

Salman Rushdie

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Jose Bergamin

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Kurt Busch

I'm on probation, so I can't even pick my nose the right way.

Julian Casablancas

A band is a good way to break up a friendship.