How do you top ‘Mormon?’ I get sent scripts all the time and I don’t know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you’ll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you’ll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.
I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don’t think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.
I found ‘Celebrity Gangster’ intense, dramatic, a real page turner.
I want to go out in dramatic fashion. Win, lose, or draw, I want to have a retirement match, and a lot of guys have done it.
Once I reported for a dramatic lesson. The coach looked at me and said, ‘Amanda, can’t you part your hair some other way? It makes you look too much like someone else on the lot.’ I rushed home and parted my hair in the middle and have ever since. I even wore it tied up in a big bun in back.
I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person’s side of the story. Sometime it’s easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.
Every writer has compressed time and procedure, and used clarifying dialogue. That’s not a scandal: it’s a legitimate dramatic technique.
To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
I think all phases of one’s career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
I’m Icelandic. We’re all so dramatic.
You first and foremost need to be honest with the script because you don’t want to do anything to screw up the basic fundamentals of the story. You don’t want to create anything overly dramatic when you don’t need to, and you don’t want to create anything less dramatic than necessary, either.
I think it’s true of every great comedy that it’s rooted in some dramatic, incredibly personal truth. And it’s true of all great drama that there has to be comedy.
In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women’s lives. It’s what they talked about most.
My life isn’t that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can’t talk on the phone. He’s too crippled and shy, and that’s almost harder. He’s there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it’s just impossible to have a relationship.
I’m not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.
I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I’m in.
We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there – it’s so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.
The opening solo on ‘Once in Royal David’s City’ is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year.
I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.
The free market for mobile devices and wireless service has been a dramatic success.
I wouldn’t be a great candidate for dramatic fighting TV; I’m not a cat-fighting kinda person.
I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.
To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that’s why I just make up crap.
The rise of populist movements and the shrinking of the middle class – with all the economic pain and political turbulence that comes with that – seems to have increased the appetite of both parties for dramatic proposals.
As a filmmaker, the most dramatic and the most dread-inspiring thing is when the audience can see more than the characters themselves can see.
We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.
You find a personality whom you think the TV audience will embrace and find a format that is tailor-made for the personality. In the case of Andy Griffith, we moved the personality of a wily country shark – a funny and shrewd guy – into another arena. In this case, he is a lawyer, and it is a dramatic series.
Some dramatic event often crystallizes popular attention, and the world turns on a dime.
Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.
I think it helped that ‘Fleabag’ had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.
It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they’re driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they’d sound ludicrous!
As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth – a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.
I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.
I don’t steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it’s funny then so be it. If it’s dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
I had always sort of done dramatic things, and I love them; it’s my background. But when I think about ‘Fresh Meat,’ I just think about the cast and the crew that we had… we just had a great time.
I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.
What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren’t entertainers, you know.
I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It’s really what I love and what I care about.
People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.
Everything I write about either I have gone through or I know somebody has gone through, so it’s very close to me, but sometimes it’s about taking those feelings and exaggerating on them a little bit: being a bit more dramatic but still keeping them relatable.
I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.
Poets can’t resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I’m doing comedy.
Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There’s not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.
I’m known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I’m a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
Ian Fleming and Norman Felton were friends. ‘U.N.C.L.E.’ was basically a tongue-in-cheek ‘Bond.’ It wasn’t quite as serious and dramatic as ‘Bond,’ nor did we have the budget for that.
West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.
Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.
For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I’ve played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
