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“Sex, love and death are universal and timeless dramatic themes.”

Sex Universal Dramatic Theme Timeless Love And Death Sex Love

“I really wanted to do some serious work. I really wanted to be a part of dramatic films. I wanted to show this talent, whatever that means, that I could be a dramatic actress as well. But the truth is, a) I don't know if I can, and b) I love doing comedy, and I felt almost a little embarrassed that I succumbed to the pressure. Vanity is really what it is. I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.”

Ifs Knows Feels Wells Mean Littles I Can Shows Wanted Film Felt Comedy Talent Serious Truth Is Pressure Grateful Actresses Vanity Dramatic Embarrassed Serious Work

Author:Anna Faris

“Like behind the car or in the pub, to do a scene, a proper nice dramatic scene, it's always a treat. And they're usually shot as one, so you've got a big chunk of dialogue to learn, and you feel like you're working.”

Feels Bigs Behinds Nice Car Like You Scene Shots Treats Dialogue Dramatic Chunks Pubs

Author:Simon Pegg

“Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up to are also very funny.”

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Author:Adam Brody

“I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting. And again, I'm not going, "I've got to become a dramatic actor now." I just want more interesting jobs. I just want to keep doing stuff that's different.”

Want Should Trying Different Jobs Actors Stuff Interesting Acting Balance Strikes Dramatic

Author:Patton Oswalt

“I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.”

Sometimes Moments Film Wonder Effects Cry Dramatic Tragic

Author:Roman Polanski

“The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.”

Moments Planets Source Ocean Happenings Finals Things Happen Dramatic Exploring Frontiers Our Planet Source Of Life Unexplored

Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.”

Trying Easy Difficult Interesting Violence Dramatic Get Away Physical Violence

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.”

Looks Long Different Play Actors Emotion Pieces Produce Quiet Picks Down And Sensitive Dramatic Symphony Ups & Downs Different Emotions

Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“I have a pretty fresh delivery. I feel that I am probably more of a dramatic actor, but I'm also a comedian. Every day I am polishing up my skills.”

Feels Actors Skills Comedian Dramatic Delivery

Author:Tone Bell

“To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in." I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet - out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring.”

Character Stories Eye Voice Spring Gains Exciting Dramatic Encounters

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.”

Writing Trying Looks Mean Emotional Truth Is Dramatic Telling The Truth Edits

Author:Erica Jong

“Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.”

Persons Consciousness Normal Illusion Lonely Dramatic Islands Imagery Theological

Book:Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship

Source: Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship

“The architecture or look fo a line is really important to me, and often ice can add something to the look of the wall. A dry rock wall is often not very dramatic. You add ice and snow and the features stand out in greater relief and it looks much wilder.”

Looks Important Lines Greater Rocks Wall Add Architecture Snow Ice Features Dramatic Dry Relief Standing Out Wilder Ice And Snow

Author:Jeff Lowe

“West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.”

Beautiful West Dramatic Yorkshire

Author:David Hockney

“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.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“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.”

Mean Stories Song Actors Scene Active Dramatic Texture

Author:Stephen Sondheim

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

Wells Play Good Things Dramatic Weed

Author:Kevin Nealon

“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.”

Want Kind Hard Dramatic Be Kind

Author:Jenny Holzer

“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.”

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Author:Tony Goldwyn

“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.”

Said Space Deals Degrees Ships Cups Dramatic Thrown Swim They Said Rockets Sharks Straight Up Escalators Sink Or Swim

Author:Kurt Busch

“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.”

Should Heart Ends Stories Able Film Powerful Attention Audience Successful Middle Emotional Intellectual Narrative Dramatic Capture Viewers Arcs Protagonists Beginning Middle And End

Author:Julia Bacha

“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.”

Ifs World Should Made Ends Joy Graves This Life Dramatic Cradle Another World

Book:Interviews

Source: Interviews

“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.”

People Years Kind Moving Order Courses Levels Numbers Millions Written Media Events Disease News Fairs Spread Dramatic Related Bombs Massive Steady Avoided Famine Malnutrition Attrition

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“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.”

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Author:Carlos Cuaron

“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.”

Ifs War States Problem Today Together Choices Religious Break Failing Conflict Consequence Independence Iraq Enormous Dramatic Civil War Working Together Als Provinces Break Out Kurds

Author:Zalmay Khalilzad

“I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.”

Looks Real Moments Stories Bigs Eye Lying House Silly Dramatic Tone Comedic Collision Shameless

Author:David Nevins

“A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.”

Important States Stories Action Century Citizens Accounts Dramatic Thoughtful Reins Abusive Ominous

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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.”

Giving Littles Might Culture Sound Voice Dramatic Latina Grandiose

Author:Cristela Alonzo

“You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction.”

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Author:Francoise Gilot

“I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.”

Real Dark Powerful Roles Dramatic Really Powerful

Author:Daveigh Chase

“All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.”

“I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.”

Feels Wells Stuff Comedy Scripts Dramatic

Author:Rachael Harris

“I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.”

Knows Roles Dramatic

Author:Jon Heder

“I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.”

Needs I Can Character Actors Stuff Materials Dramatic Nonsense Investigation Raw Materials

Author:Mike Leigh

“The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.”

World Play Player Pressure Brilliant Chess Income Chinese Planes Dramatic Argentina Chess Players Playing Chess

Author:Kenneth Rogoff

“Lots of really interesting people move to U.S and decide to work here, because of this whole attitude and openness. I'm absolutely convinced that this is just the beginning. In a couple decades we will see an even more dramatic change.”

People Whole Moving Interesting Attitude Couple Convinced Decades Dramatic Openness Really Interesting Dramatic Change

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“You're trying to dramatize events to tell a story most effectively. That doesn't mean the events aren't true, it just means you're making them as dramatic as you possibly can.”

Trying Mean Stories Events Dramatic

Author:Mark Boal

“The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.”

Believe Humans Doe Prejudice Critics Planes Human Life Dramatic

Book:Comedians All

Source: Comedians All

“The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.”

“Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.”

Position Argument Arguing Dramatic Unfair Plato

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.”

Littles Speak Voice Mark Good Things Setting Settings Dramatic Gestures Pauses Gems Epigrams Orators

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.”

Art Ideas Reality Left Danger Objects Painting Art Is Dramatic Abstract Remove Semblance Indelible Abstract Art

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.”

Important Real Moments Lines Honest Fine Skills Being Honest Dramatic That Moment Just Being Comedic Fine Lines

Author:Bob Odenkirk

“When people are out of their comfort zone, it’s more dramatic, more prone to have more entertaining experiences, get into fights. That’s the dramatic instinct, to move people out of what they know and make them deal with it.”

People Knows Moving Fighting Deals Comfort Instinct Dramatic Zone Entertaining Comfort Zone

Author:Conor McPherson

“People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.”

People Thinking Film Actors Heavy Dramatic Great Actors

Author:Maria Bello

“I think that the marketplace has changed in many dramatic ways but actually in some sense it's remained the same because the challenge of creating quality programming is the same, and I've always thought that if you follow the great material everything else will fall in to place.”

Ifs Thinking Way Fall Challenges Quality Changed Materials Creating Dramatic Programming Marketplace

Author:Colin Callender

“I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.”

Ifs Trying Looks Stories Happens Sides Comedy Victim Tales Dramatic Sunny Sunny Side

Author:Suzanne Shaw

“Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the Mount: he is the light of the world, he is the salt of the earth, he loves his enemies and gives his life for them, he is lifted up on a hill so that the world can see.”

World Giving Stories Light Earth Jesus Enemy Goes On Messages Conclusion Hills Dramatic Salt Sermons Sermon On The Mount Light Of The World Salt Of The Earth

Author:N. T. Wright

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