Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanley Tucci

Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.

Tony Kushner

Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

Tommy Lee Jones

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

Tom Shales

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

Steven Levitan

With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.

Steve Carell

I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.

Steve Carell

I find things funny that aren't self-aware. That don't know they're funny, and I think the same can hold true for drama. If you think you're in this tragedy and you play it for tragedy, there's a self-awareness there that I think takes you out of watching it and I believe it cuts both ways.

Sigourney Weaver

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

Sigourney Weaver

I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.

Sigourney Weaver

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

Sigourney Weaver

What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.

Shemar Moore

Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.

Philip Levine

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

Pope Francis

...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.

Pope Francis

Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal. ... When the stock market drops 10 points in some cities, it constitutes a tragedy. Someone who dies is not news, but lowering income by 10 points is a tragedy! In this way people are thrown aside as if they were trash.

Ramana Maharshi

Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective.

Rafe Spall

I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

Tennessee Williams

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.

Tennessee Williams

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

James McAvoy

I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

James McAvoy

I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.

James Marsden

I know I have a face like a model. But I’m actually just a goofy drama nerd underneath.

James Mangold

There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one genre is to another. I think that westerns and samurai films and superhero films have a lot in common. It's just that the scale of the visuals in tentpole films can sometimes overwhelm the drama.

James Levine

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

Taylor Lautner

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do

Stan Brakhage

A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.

Soren Kierkegaard

Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

Tim Blake Nelson

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

Tim Cahill

My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort.

Russell Brand

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

Romola Garai

I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.