Dramatic Quotes · Page 11

“The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.”

— Donald Miller

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations…

— Laurence Olivier

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.

— Mark Boal

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic…

— Susan Sullivan

“I was, and still am, a dramatic rider. I believe that there’s no point in doing something if you aren’t going to…

— Alessandra Torre

Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do

— Sherilyn Fenn

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

— Kate Smith

Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.

— Andrew Neil

Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

My go-go dancing was not your typical go-go dancing: I really was doing performance art. I would do dramatic, elaborate lyricals across…

— Annaleigh Ashford

Yes I agree shows sometimes go over dramatic, hit tracks get repeated, but then why not also talk about the kind of…

— Rupali Ganguly

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one…

— Topher Grace

Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way…

— Bryan Fuller

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially…

— Will Ferrell

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got…

— Jim Butcher

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic…

— Milan Kundera

Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of…

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary…

— I. Bernard Cohen

I am a director and I think actually they're not that different - dramas and docs aren't that different. When I'm doing…

— Asif Kapadia

I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is…

— Philippe Falardeau

Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle…

— Stefan Petrucha

I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get. I think I'm a stronger comedic actress than I am a dramatic…

— Taraji P. Henson

It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the…

— Waldemar Kaempffert

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

— Kurt Sutter

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as…

— Richelle Mead

“I don't see any hint of you missing me, It's time to put sense in this misery I love you too much,…

— Miss Rainbow Moonfire

I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Sometimes... I can't believe what mum says or does when she's being really dramatic.

— Aimee Osbourne

I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So,…

— Courtney Love

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

— Robert Webb

She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.

— Ann Brashares

I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.

— Stephen Hunter

Jason [Sudeikis] is a successful actor and comedian, I don't think that he takes comedic roles any less seriously than he does…

— Taron Egerton

I had a weave that was really bad. Too dramatic. I literally took it out when I got home. Had to pretend…

— Judi Love

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

— George Jean Nathan

It's hard to define change in oneself unless something really dramatic happens, like you give up some vice, fall in love, or…

— Ron Howard

I don't have anything that dramatic as far as a performance goes. I've never participated in a show that ended in a…

— David Koechner

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

— Deborah Norville

When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, 'Wonderful! I didn't know he was funny!' But when it flips,…

— Will Ferrell