Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Asner

(on making the transition from the comedy "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) to its dramatic spin-off series "Lou Grant" (1977) We were really worried about changing over from a three-camera half-hour comedy to a one-camera full-hour drama. The audience wasn't ready for the switch - even CBS billed us in their promos as a comedy. In fact, the whole thing was impossible. But we didn't know that.

David Hume

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

David Bromstad

Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.

Ben Wheatley

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

Ben Stiller

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

Ben Stiller

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.

Denis Leary

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

William Shakespeare

Every great drama has its foreshadow.

'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.

Mark Cuban

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

We're making money on the freighters at the moment, but not a dramatic return.

Ross Levinsohn

We're going to take some pretty dramatic steps to provide industry-leading safety.

Camille Paglia

Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that has no climax but only an enedless round, cycle upon cycle. Microcosm mirrors macrocosm. Free will is stillborn in the red cells of our body, for there is no free will in nature. Our choices come to us prepackaged and special delivery, molded by hands not our own.

Casey Wilson

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

Carl Jung

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

Cate Blanchett

Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.

We're still looking at job growth, but not enough to prevent unemployment from rising. If there were no special factors explaining this, it would be a rather dramatic piece of news.

Bill Watterson

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

Benjamin Tucker

The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

We were hoping to get a dramatic demonstration.

Chauncey Depew

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

We're more than happy to profit from short-term fluctuations, and we think this morning's dramatic drop is very short-term,

With the large increase in workers in the extractive industries in our state, we've seen a dramatic increase in drug activity.

Chelsea Handler

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

Bob Woodward

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Bob Odenkirk

Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.

Bob Newhart

I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.

Bill Rancic

So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.

Dale Robertson

Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

Louis MacNeice

All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value?