Top 499 Dramatic Quotes

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.
Kevin Hart
Superwoman is more of a performer, which Lilly isn’t. Having said that, I guess both of them are completely over the top, dramatic and full of energy.
Lilly Singh
I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.
Carmen Electra
I am used to doing dramatic work, but its fun to grab a gun, and go running around, getting beat-up. Its fun to do the action stuff, because it is really physical. There is nothing like getting into a character by getting beaten up physically.
Devon Bostick
There’s something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it’s also very rewarding.
Gemma Whelan
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
Aaron Eckhart
While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn’t really need to go to school anymore.
Russell Crowe
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand – the one doing the important job – unnoticed.
David K. Shipler
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave… walking the plank… willingly… It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.
Morrissey
Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.
Eli Broad
True expression is hard when performing opera. The prob

True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
Zola Jesus
I’m a comedian at heart, and I really can make people laugh, but ever since ‘Amadeus,’ all I seem to do is play dramatic roles and villains.
F. Murray Abraham
The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it’s in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.
Gianni Versace
They have equal weight and you do the same work you’d do if you were playing a dramatic role.
Harvey Keitel
It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.
Richard Rodgers
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 actresses, but everything they do is funny.
Casey Wilson
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 why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.
Jimmy Smits
There has been a growing consensus across the country – from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress – that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.
Ruben Hinojosa
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, which we tend to find more interesting than cars just racing around the track. The same is true of bridges, buildings, or any structure or machine.
Henry Petroski
Sometimes when you’re creating something, it takes on a life of its own, and you can be surprised at how sad or dramatic it might get.
Vince Gilligan
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
‘Life Is Good’ represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
Nas
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
If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn’t feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.
Patrick Whitesell
I enjoy comedic things. People don’t understand it’s the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.
Charles Grodin
The most serious problem doing biography is the matter of time because you have to shape events into a narrative of two hours; you have to create a dramatic arc. That can be a challenge.
Morten Tyldum
We designed a car that is for daily commutes and that you charge every day. The less you use the gasoline engine, the better mpg. Essentially, the Karma can achieve dramatic savings and low CO2 output when used as intended, as a daily commuter.
Henrik Fisker
For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.
Michael C. Hall
Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it’s such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It’s very sleek.
Bryan Batt
Israel has its attractions. It’s the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody’s engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know?
Shimon Peres
I always found the dramatic side of things easier than the comedy, because there’s so many ways to do comedy, and it’s also subjective. Someone might not laugh at what you do, whereas if you’re going to do a dramatic scene, there’s usually only one way you can do it.
Rhys Thomas
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
Lenny Kravitz
We won’t rescue humanity from self-destruction without a dramatic change in how we invest for our future energy needs.
Ed Davey
I can’t see any reason why a dramatic story can’t be in 3-D. I think ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ would have been fabulous in 3-D.
Robert Zemeckis
Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.
Tracy K. Smith
I haven’t done much comedy; I would love to. I love doing dramatic roles, but I’d love to do comedy. I think it would be refreshing.
Richard Harmon
The ‘modern’ air-traffic-control system, and the FAA itself, was created in the aftermath of one of the most dramatic commercial midair bashes, way back in 1956.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
John Philip Sousa
I would say that ‘Breath of the Wild’ is a dramatic departure from the conventions of a ‘Zelda’ game.
Reggie Fils-Aime
We had a teacher in school who would organize dramatic shows. And she decided to put on a show about – I don’t know whether you remember – ‘Ferdinand the Bull’, the comic script. However, she decided, you’re going to sing Ferdinand, me, as a role.
Jimmy Scott
I’m more interested in character than events. I’ve observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.
Alice McDermott
The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally a

The birthplace of ‘Western’ civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
Brendan Myers
The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres.
Terry Teachout
There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
H. P. Lovecraft
I went to a party in Ibiza in 1984 in this house built into the side of a cliff with glass walls. It was the most dramatic thing I’d ever seen. There was a fountain that ran through the house and off the edge of the cliff. If you’ve ever seen the Peter Sellers film ‘The Party,’ it was the spitting image of that.
Martin Kemp
Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.
Alex Campbell
Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.
William Barr
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories – and my absolute favourite was ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.’ Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl’s books as an adult it surprised me.
David Walliams
And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.
Thomas Keneally
Your billion-dollar ideas don’t show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.
Robin S. Sharma
In the 1880s and 1890s, extremists in the Republican party also threatened the future of the US. Just when it seemed the extremists’ control of the government was complete, their political machinations, propaganda, and demonization of their opposition fueled a dramatic backlash.
Heather Cox Richardson
My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can’t even predict.
Stephen Kinzer