Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Maguire

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

Ian Mckellen

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

Ian Mckellen

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'

Howard Hawks

The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

Gore Vidal

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

Gore Vidal

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

Gina Holden

I certainly do all sorts of work. I'm very, very blessed to do drama and other types of television, and things like that, but I always go back to sci-fi, whenever possible, because that's really exciting for me.

Gina Gershon

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor

Gina Carano

There's so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics.

Gillian Jacobs

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

Gillian Jacobs

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

Harold Ramis

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama. There's a lot of bullshit drama that leaves you totally cold. And there's a lot of wasted comedy time too. But when you get something honest, it doesn't matter what label you give it.

Harold Ramis

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

James De La Vega

I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.

James D'arcy

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

Jacki Weaver

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

Jackie Chan

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

James Galway

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

Graham Norton

Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.

Gloria Estefan

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

Jim Jefferies

There are two types of actors. There's the actors who can acknowledge that they could never do standup comedy. Then there's the pretentious ones, who believe that acting is harder than standup comedy. I definitely don't think it is. I also think making a comedy is substantially harder than making a drama.

Jim Jarmusch

I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I`m not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me.

Jim Davidson

Always say no to drugs. It will drive the prices down.

Jessica Pare

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

Jeremy Northam

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

Jeremy Piven

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

Jencarlos Canela

The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.

Glenda Jackson

comedy ... is much harder to do than drama. It's not true that laugh and the world laughs with you. It's very hard to make a group of people laugh at the same thing; much easier to make them cry at the same thing. ... That's why great comic acting is probably the greatest acting there is.

Gilbert Ryle

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Fred Rogers

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

George Grosz

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

Hack Wilson

I never played drunk. Hung over, yes, but never drunk.

Gus Van Sant

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.