Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alison Bechdel

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

Albert Maltz

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

Albert Camus

It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.

Anna Silk

I love female-driven drama, and those kinds of characters. I really love complex women.

Annabelle Wallis

The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

Anna Popplewell

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

Cillian Murphy

For me, drama is conflict.

Alfred de Vigny

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

Alfred Hitchcock

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Amy Seimetz

I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

Amy Seimetz

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

Amy Sedaris

I like dramas and stuff. That's what I watch, but it seems weird that I'd be in it.

Andrew Scott

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

Andre Holland

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

Andre Holland

I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to know Shakespeare and got a chance to play great parts in Shakespeare, because it really teaches you - or taught me, anyway - everything.

Andre Braugher

Comedy and I were never strangers, it's just that I was doing a lot of drama.

Andre Braugher

Drama was always clogging up the phone line. It's like that's what people call me for.

Ang Lee

Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.

Ang Lee

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

Ang Lee

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

Anais Nin

I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

Amanda Plummer

I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

Anne Carson

I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.

Ann Beattie

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

Anjelica Huston

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.

Andrew Wyeth

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

Robert Frost

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

Robert Benchley

I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in "The Wild Duck," and I afterward had her killed, so there will be no more of that out of her.

Thornton Wilder

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.