Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Berry

Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as 'consumers.'

Walter Pater

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

W. Somerset Maugham

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

Robert Klein

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

Rob McElhenney

Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

Richard Linklater

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

Rian Johnson

There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you couldn't, if you were just doing a drama. It lets you maybe reach a little further and surprise people a little bit more because there's still that little safety base of working on that genre that everybody loves.

Rebecca Eaton

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

Rebecca Hall

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

Rebel Wilson

I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

Robert De Niro

When you make a movie, everyone should leave their own personal problems at home. When they start bringing those to set, filming can be very difficult... You don't need any extra drama. Put the drama into the story, in the characters.

Robert De Niro

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

RJ Mitte

I wouldn't say in all situations, but a lot of times kids can be the most reasonable people around because they don't have the deal with all the drama that goes along with being an adult.

Richard Rodriguez

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

Rosamund Pike

I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

Ronald Blythe

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

Tom Robbins

The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

Tom Ellis

The weird thing about drama school is that you train for three years for one thing and then more often than not, it's something that you haven't trained for that you end up doing.

Tom Ellis

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.

Tom Baker

I wasnt interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

Tom Baker

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Todd Haynes

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.

Steve Coogan

Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of sadness.

Steve Coogan

I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce people into thinking about something serious. If you want to hit a beat in a drama, you can distract people with a little comedy, and you can punch them in the gut with some emotion.

Steve Coogan

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

Stephen Moyer

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

Stephen Moyer

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

Spiro T. Agnew

In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result ... to inform or to confuse? How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability.

Sophia Loren

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.

Sam Shepard

All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?