A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
I have a terrific relationship with Woody and realize it’s full of dramatic overtones, but it’s really quite simple. It revolves around conversations, film talk, sports talk, books, and art.
Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.
Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama’s campaign.
Dramatic fiction – William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.
I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There’s a lot of architecture in our songs.
It’s hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.
In Hollywood most of the films we see are all about the relationships between lovers, but as massively important as that is in someone’s life, my relationships with women have always been really dramatic and powerful.
I Googled every actor from my favorite film ‘Annie.’ Albert Finney was also from Manchester and he went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art – so I auditioned there, too.
Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled.
I don’t know why we have this flair for having dramatic finishes, but we’ve definitely had a few through the years.
I’m seventy-one now, so it’s hard to imagine a dramatic change.
‘Crouching Tiger,’ of course, was a very dramatic role for me, and the fighting was very serious.
I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my ‘Monster,’ like Charlize Theron, so I’m buckling up for that.
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show.
I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don’t write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.
I’ve noticed, as a comedy fan, that I really like Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino because when they’re funny, they’re actually funny. It’s not like when other dramatic writers have comedy, and I’m just like, ‘Well, that’s not funny. Why are you even trying to make a joke here?’
I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.
Obviously, when you do something with drama and comedy in it – and by that, I mean a scene that has drama and comedy in it – you know the minute you introduce music, you’re either scoring the drama or you’re scoring the comedy, and therefore the scene becomes either dramatic or comedic.
I’ve just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there’s no compression of time, there’s no enhanced event, it’s just real life?
I was a big shot in high school – big into social events and at the dramatic society – and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.
I never really thought about myself being in really big movies at all. In fact, I always though I’d do, I don’t know, smaller movies is not quite the right word, but more character-oriented, dramatic things. I took myself a little bit seriously.
‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There’s not that much difference.
It’s harder in the States. I’m much more inclined to get offered things that are a lot straighter and heavier and dramatic. And they go by looks, too. If you look like a leading man, then that’s what they will consider you for.
If you live with someone that is depressed, the truth of it – it’s not that dramatic, it’s just a bit, kind of, ‘Here we go, this is what we’re doing today. This is sad. But we’re gonna get through it.’
Newt Gingrich’s rhetorical tics are well-known – his fondness for the word ‘frankly,’ his eagerness to frame even the most mundane development in dramatic world-historical terms, and his eagerness to accuse his enemies of practicing ‘machine’ politics.
Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
I’m still shooting on low budgets, though none of my movies has lost money, and I rarely get sent anything that stars a guy or is a thriller or is seriously dramatic. And I would love the opportunity to do those things.
I’d like to do something dramatic or a different kind of role, but I tend not to separate comedy and drama all that much.
I’ve worked a lot in comedy. As much as I love playing dramatic roles, it’s always nice to be able to have some humor around when working.
The cutest part is that both my grandparents have tried to adapt to my dream. When I sat them down and showed them a film that I did – with an intimate scene in it – I was surprised that their reaction wasn’t dramatic. My grandmother even came to me to ask, ‘How do you do it?’
I try to think of myself as both comedic and dramatic.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
I love comedy, but I did always consider myself a dramatic comedian.
I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.
That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don’t play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.
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.
But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can’t forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn’t work.
Every other reality show is so freakin’ dramatic, I feel like they bring me down. ‘Miz & Mrs’ makes people laugh.
There are times when I cry. I’ll sit in the chair and feel the depression, let it seethe. Then it starts to go away, and I find myself laughing, saying, ‘Well, that was dramatic.’
When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there’s humor. And if you don’t show that, you’re not being true to real life.
I studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and ‘Orange’ was my first audition ever for TV or film.
It would have been impossible to get ‘The Verdict’ off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.
As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that’s when things start feeling fake and boring.
I can’t imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it’s so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it’s fun, and you get to live at home.
I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
I like to consider myself a problem solver. I don’t like to spend a lot of time talking about the problem, stressing out or being dramatic about it. I like to try and figure out how I can fix it.
Maybe John Kerry does not know – but I am happy to explain it to him – that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack.
‘There are no easy pickings.’ That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch.’
What’s interesting is that younger characters just have a more vibrant, exciting point of view on the world. They are more emotional, they are more dramatic, and they are just electric.
By employing a certain sense of humor, you essentially get more serious about things and show conflict more effectively than if you were overly dramatic or only violent because that’s a one-way approach that just forces audiences to watch something appalling.
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.
