I start with the history, and I ask myself, ‘What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?’
The PAWS Act is a simple bill that could have a dramatic – and potentially life-saving – effect on the lives of many.
I have always been interested in health care and doing something that is dramatic.
In real life, I’m very rational, and I’m not very dramatic.
There is no question that Australia’s most dramatic assault on the world market has been with its value wines. These are generally not from specific appellations but blends made by huge enterprises like Penfolds, Rosemount or Casella Estate – the group behind Yellow Tail.
The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole ‘nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.
I don’t want to do something for the sake of doing it. I want it to be a great role and I want it to be really funny – or dramatic – but I mean I want it to be something really, really special.
There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn’t understand why, and nor could they.
Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.
I think I’ve definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw ‘Titanic’ in the theater, I got the bug.
Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is a sensuous experience, and that’s its main difference from film or any other dramatic art.
‘Top Chef’ is always entertaining – it’s hard to stop watching, like a good hockey fight, but no one gets hurt. It’s great that the format is so inherently dramatic and can make cooking so entertaining to people who might not ordinarily be interested in a cooking show. Good for the industry all round.
Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements.
I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I’ve worked with. And I’ve worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.
Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.
If you’re shooting a really serious, dramatic scene, personally I wouldn’t want to look at the camera.
I find myself more affected by music the more I do it. Particularly when you’re touring, and you’re in the bus, and you’re listening to loads of music. Life becomes far more dramatic, I guess – you’re never in the same place; you’re constantly meeting new people. You almost become more sensitized to music.
I can do very dramatic films, and at the same time, I can do a very meaningless movie, too, if I feel my role is good.
When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called ‘In The Abyss Of Coney Island.’ That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.
Well, I went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy – I went to the conservatory – for acting.
I think I’m good at playing dramatic and serious roles, but it’s not necessarily what I want to keep doing.
I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. I’m really drawn to those as well. All different genres.
It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors’ school shows. I got a lot of pressure from them to quit the paper and concentrate on studying dramatic literature.
I usually get cast in more dark, dramatic things, and I would love to do something more comedic.
I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They’re the reason I got into movies.
We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.
Sometimes… I can’t believe what mum says or does when she’s being really dramatic.
I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I’m an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That’s what I want to do.
I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, ‘Well, I guess I could do comedy.’
My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer’s disease. But I’d often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.
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.
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient’s renal and cardiopulmonary status.
I like to be dramatic in my music because that’s when it gets to your heart.
I’m primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly ‘Frankenstein’ had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there’s one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
I’m aware of other artists, but what I’m really most interested in is viewing individual pictures. I like dramatic pictures.
In high school, I got into a speech class run by a nun who used to put on plays. She put me in a oratorical competitive program. You would tell a story, and they were very corny, something like ‘My Childhood Hero.’ It was something out of ‘Readers Digest.’ I always thought it was too much and too dramatic.
I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard of. Luckily, I got in at the first attempt.
In an action film you act in the action. If it’s a dramatic film you act in the drama.
I started acting young, and I was a dramatic actress.
If you have a bold brow, it’s best to forgo a super-smoky eye and make the lips dramatic instead.
Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.
Sometimes when you belt, it kinda makes the song more dramatic than it really needs to be. There are certain songs that you hear, and you’re like, ‘Wow, he’s singing about his girlfriend, but he sounds kinda mad the way he’s yelling, ‘You’re so pretty!”
Dramatic shows are the ones that I am attracted to.
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
I live a dramatic life, it’s just not on TV yet.
My husband and I are both actors; we’re obviously dramatic.
Nothing dramatic can be expected from the Sports Code, because the Olympic Charter has to be respected.
I’d be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.
I would probably struggle a bit more with a really dramatic serious-intent story. You have to really bring it. My brain is so comically wired, though.
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people’s lives when they go in one direction, not another.
I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
Keegan-Michael Key and Lindsay Sloane are two of the best, literally, just dramatic actors.
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you’ve done more dramatic projects or you’re classically trained.
I’ve got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.
I like dramas. I’ve always liked dramas. And I’m a pretty light person. I don’t consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.
All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story… You’ve got good characters… People think there’s some dramatic difference between writing ‘Little Bear’ and the ‘Hunger Games,’ and as a writer, for me, there isn’t.
Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my life to date. Then sadly, I also realized I could never find the ending of my story from the safety of an armchair.
Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
