Dramatic Quotes - Page 4

• Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

  Lillian Hellman

  Writing, Cost, Guilty

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Fun, Passion, Long

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Jul 02, 2013

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• At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

  George S. Kaufman

  Rehearsal, Absent

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• To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

  Colin Mochrie

  Hard Work, Discipline, Talent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

  Robert Morgan

  Writing, Southern, Narrative

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• 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.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, Careers, Pieces

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• After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Roles, Hollywood, Cracks

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

  Sally Ride

  Anxious

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• I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

  Oliver Stone

  Trying, Doe, Interpretation

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• Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

  Allen Tate

  Criticism, Experience, May

  Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

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• In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Way, Fields, Ambiguous

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Passionate, France, Performances

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• I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

  Susan Sullivan

  Unique, Thinking, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

  Thomas Keneally

  Church, Literature, World

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• To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Believe, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Mean, Stories

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The good thing about 'Weeds' now is, I get to play some dramatic parts in that as well.

  Kevin Nealon

  Weed, Play, Good Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.

  Jenny Holzer

  Want, Be Kind, Hard

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Character, Men, Years

  "President Fitz (R-Scandal) Explains What’s Wrong With the Republican Party". Interview with Patrick Caldwell, www.motherjones.com. September 24, 2014.

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• It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

  Kurt Busch

  Sharks, Space, Swim

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• At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

  Julia Bacha

  Powerful, Heart, Successful

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• Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Joy, World, Cradle

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Herman Eugene Kittredge (1912). “Interviews”

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• After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Moving, Media, Order

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A penalty kick becomes a Western duel. It's two guys facing each other. Destiny and potential death, whether metaphorical or literal. That's why in the penalty kick at the end of the film, I shot it like an homage to the Sergio Leone Westerns I saw when I was a kid, especially The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

  Carlos Cuaron

  Football, Kids, Destiny

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Religious, War, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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