When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I've done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
When I was seven, I said, "I want to act." When I was 10, I realized that films exist, and I wanted… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between… — Margaret Edson Copy Share Image
When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
I've always, always loved comedy and dramatic work equally. In an ideal world I'm in a role where I get to actually… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I like poetry, but honestly, I like dramatic literature more. If I had to pick between Rumi and Dostoevsky, I would pick… — Ramin Bahrani Copy Share Image
I love comedy. I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way. I did a lot of acting, funnily enough, unprofessionally,… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people we’d like to see the world a better place,… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need all the newfangled web-based Internet spread, you know, social media that can catalyze, you know, some serious consciousness about what's… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Quince may resemble pears and apples, but unlike their fruit brethren, raw quince are inedibly tannic and sour. This means you do… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a… — Julia Bacha Copy Share Image
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are… — Peter Sarsgaard Copy Share Image
I think that the marketplace has changed in many dramatic ways but actually in some sense it's remained the same because the… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Bad news is dramatic. It makes good TV. If there's a firefight on the same day that a school opens up, the… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete.… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I'd say my fashion or beauty tip is to take the thing about you that makes you most distinctive and then exaggerate… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong… — Chow Yun-Fat Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
