Dramatic Quotes · Page 12

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.

— Joaquin Phoenix

I have always said, even before I ever did TV, that I have a very dramatic family.

— Farrah Abraham

“My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.”

— Thomas Sweeney

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

— Bat for Lashes

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

— David Mamet

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being…

— Bob Odenkirk

I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard…

— Richard McCabe

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

— Gayle Forman

The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the…

— Ben Bernanke

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you…

— Tony Kushner

In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's…

— Rick Santorum

Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the…

— Tim Hetherington

I remember I did the movie 'Eulogy,' and there was a dramatic moment in it. It was pretty heavy, and I went…

— Ray Romano

I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court - it's like an ER, you know? Life…

— Marcia Clark

If you think about it, if you've ever been to a Catholic service, it's practically a laser light show. It's very dramatic,…

— Win Butler

Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I…

— Brian D. McLaren

People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this…

— Marya Hornbacher

Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking…

— Leonard Nimoy

Before I became President, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there had been fairly dramatic, and I think excessive, reductions in…

— Jimmy Carter

To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the…

— Jared Diamond

There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each…

— Harold Pinter

Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in…

— Doris Lessing

People are drawn to watching things that are dramatic. And the tighter a relationship is, the more dramatic it can be. That's…

— Linda Cardellini

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

— Alan Cumming

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

— Ambrose Bierce

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

— Pilou Asbaek

The opening solo on 'Once in Royal David's City' is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year.

— David Hepworth

I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].

— Megan Chance

As much as we joke around about 'The Bachelor' being the most dramatic show ever, Miss America really is an amazingly dramatic…

— Chris Harrison

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something…

— Kate Bush

People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."

— Dan Millman

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not…

— Traian Basescu

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

— Janet Frame

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the…

— Andrew Sarris

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

— June Allyson

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

— Oscar Wilde

I would probably struggle a bit more with a really dramatic serious-intent story. You have to really bring it. My brain is…

— Justin Roiland

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

— Anonymous

Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have…

— Ethan Hawke