Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hiroyuki Sanada

Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.

Hayley Atwell

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

Hilary Duff

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

Helena Bonham Carter

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

Helena Bonham Carter

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Gustav Mahler

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

Gore Verbinski

Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

Gore Verbinski

I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

John Dryden

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.

John Dryden

The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.

Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning...

John Leguizamo

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

John Landgraf

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

John Lahr

Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.

John Lahr

In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.

John Barrowman

It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.

John Barrowman

The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.

Jodie Foster

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

Jodie Foster

I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.

Jodie Foster

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

Jodie Foster

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

Jim Parsons

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

Margaret Mead

As Significant as the Invention of Drama or the Novel.

They don't (just) show up for four practices a week and a game on Friday and that's it. They are working all the time. Drama teachers have to be the same thing.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That's the earth. Why it goes around. We're the rocks. And what happens to us- the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse- why, that's just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

Nikki Cox

There's a lot more room for error in drama. With comedy, if you mess up, you fall flat on your face. With drama there's a lot more room to play.

Jerry Smith

It's a great finishing hole and I am sure there will be a lot of drama if it comes down to that.

There's drama at the border. Visa overstays is a yawn.

Luke Pasqualino

I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it. I never saw it as a career. At around 16, I knew what I wanted to do.

Tuppence Middleton

As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.

Diane Warren

I'm not like normal people. I'm no good at relationships. I draw drama to me - it's the Jew in me.