Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don DeLillo

Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.

Dominique McElligott

I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much.

Dylan McDermott

Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

Douglas Booth

I wanted to become an actor. I went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which is one of the main drama schools in London where you go when you are older. But I was doing the junior one when I was a kid. And some friends there had agents. I was fourteen and I was like, "I want an agent! It sounds awesome!" I had no idea what that was. I thought those guys looked like men in black. They were hanging around in suits all the time. So I luckily got a very good agent in London and started auditioning. And then when I was 16, I got my first film and I've been working ever since.

Dwayne Johnson

The goal with me, and the way I challenge myself as an actor, is to go from genre to genre. I like that. A lot of actors always challenge themselves. But for me the challenge lies not only in getting better, but going from drama to comedy to action or whatever the case may be, and having a wide array of movies in terms of my filmography.

Dino De Laurentiis

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

Dinesh D'Souza

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

Debbie Gibson

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.

Dean Norris

Well, I was a drama kid.

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Chuck Palahniuk

An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

Chuck Palahniuk

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas.

Christopher Parker

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

Andrew Buchan

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

Andrew Bird

Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.

Dorothy Allison

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

Doris Lessing

You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes.