Dramatic Quotes · Page 22

I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my…

— Johann Johannsson

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and…

— David Byrne

The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that.

— Billy Eichner

School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.

— Michael J. Schmoker

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

— J. K. Rowling

I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad…

— Marianne Williamson

I have always been dramatic, so I think being an actress comes naturally to me. I think I am pretty good at…

— Kriti Kharbanda

Of the many qualities I adore about Melissa McCarthy as a comedian and as a dramatic actor, the best is how fully…

— Lisa Schwarzbaum

We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes,…

— Stan Laurel

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it…

— Bryan Stevenson

If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and…

— Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint…

— Anonymous

There is one pressing need, we think, to help us compete, and that is the need to define our season, .. That…

— Tim Finchem

I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say…

— Bill McKibben

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions…

— Robert Altman

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.…

— Aldous Huxley

Many scales of climate change are in fact natural, from the slow tectonic scale, to the fast changes embedded within glacial and…

— Anthony D. Barnosky

These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that.…

— George Weigel

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather…

— Harold Ramis

I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,…

— Peter Straub

Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure…

— Nelson Shanks

There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there…

— Walter Russell

Keegan-Michael Key and Lindsay Sloane are two of the best, literally, just dramatic actors.

— Jessica St. Clair

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

— Ana Gasteyer

If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our…

— Hillary Clinton

Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work.

— Billy Eichner

Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.

— Michelle Alexander

While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our…

— Marion G. Romney

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

— Harvey Keitel

People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with…

— Maria Bello

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

— Carter Heyward

I haven't done much comedy; I would love to. I love doing dramatic roles, but I'd love to do comedy. I think…

— Richard Harmon

I really loved filming 'The Syndicate' as it was exciting to play someone serious and give a dramatic, heart felt performance.

— Joanna Page

When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

— Bellamy Young

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

— Bill Condon

I don't want to be solely a dramatic actor. It's such an important part of my quality of life to goof around…

— Patti Harrison

I suppose I'll do my dramatic turn that comedians do at some point, I'll do my 'Patch Adams' or what not.

— Janelle James

I studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and 'Orange' was my first audition ever for…

— Madeline Brewer