Dramatic Quotes

668 quotes by 607 authors

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality. — Constance Marie
I do think, oddly, that a comedic actor has a better chance of pulling off a dramatic role than a great dramatic actor has of… — Lizzy Caplan
All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic… — Casey Wilson
The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic. — Louis Garrel
In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives. — Gail Sheehy
As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at… — S. Jay Olshansky
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I… — Luanne Rice
It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture. — Cristela Alonzo
Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular crashes,… — Henry Petroski
At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic - all of… — Kelly McCreary
If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic. — Sarah MacLean
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things. — Richard Flanagan
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking. — Victor Davis Hanson
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate… — George Pierce Baker
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we… — George Pierce Baker
I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change. — Lionel Hampton
Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role. — Dinah Sheridan
It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played. — June Allyson
The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced… — Florence Ellinwood Allen
Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a… — Atom Egoyan

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