“I've always wanted to do all kinds of roles, dramatic roles and comedic roles, all kinds of roles.” KindWantedRolesAll KindsDramaticComedic Author:Aubrey Plaza
“As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.” LittlesRememberDramaticFragmentsFlamboyant Author:Leni Zumas
“I just wanted a really simple, dramatic way so that fans, people who were reading my comic, would be like, "This is something different." Just to flag it, almost.” PeopleWayDifferentWould BeWantedReadingSimpleFansComicDramaticFlags Author:David Rees
“I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll spend three straight weeks writing for 12 hours a day and just going through the motions with my worldly business because the compulsion to write descends upon me like a kind of madness. I don't mean to be dramatic, but it feels that way when it strikes.” WayFeelsWritingKindMeanLongThreeHoursWeekPeriodsMadnessMethodStrikesDramaticWorldlyCompulsionLong Periods Of Time Author:Kevin Keck
“The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character's self-awareness or lack of self-awareness.” NeedsSelfCharacterActionRememberSexPayEmotionAttentionAwarenessKeysDevelopmentSceneSelf AwarenessPsychologicalPay AttentionDramaticPsychological Development Author:K. M. Soehnlein
“I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.” KnowsMenCharacterCareGuyResponsibilityMadDramaticSubtleI CareThis GuyRogerMad MenSterling Author:Chris Matthews
“ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S.” CareMedicalDramaticAgendasAdvancingMedical CareNecessary ChangeAca Author:John E. McDonough
“I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.” PeopleWayFeelsCareAbleLaughingSpecialFashionMajorsScalesAssFeel GoodDramaticOld FashionedMaking People LaughKickingLove Making Author:Dwayne Johnson
“I would love a little bit of a change. I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.” FeelsLittlesHas BeensAbleBitsComedyHorrorLittle BitGenreFortunateDramaticThrillersThriller Genre Author:Danielle Panabaker
“I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.” ThinkingSituationComedyIntenseDramatic Author:Jason Gann
“I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.” BookPlayFormDadMy DadTheatreDramaticSpokes Author:Danny Burstein
“Gay people, we die in all the movies, like we almost always die in the movie, because that's what you can do to us that's dramatic. We can't make a baby.” PeopleDiesCan DoBabyGayDramaticGay People Author:Guy Branum
“I wanted to take up a sport the real way and see if I actually had athletic ability. And then I happened to see it was during the Atlanta Olympics. And there was a lot of coverage of archery because the U.S. men's team won all the medals. And I thought, "Wow, that's beautiful. And it's so dramatic, a beautiful sport. And I wonder if I would be good at it?"” IfsMenWayRealWould BeWantedBeautifulSportsAbilityWonderHappenedTeamBe GoodDramaticWowOlympicsMedalAthleticCoverageAtlantaArcheryAthletic Ability Author:Geena Davis
“I've only had one dramatic role in my entire career and when I did it, I was in heaven and I thought, 'Oh my god, I'm going to get more of these.'” HeavenCareersRolesDramatic Author:Jennifer Coolidge
“Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.” PeopleMadeForeverCryTasteMiserableDramaticLike SomethingMade Me Cry Author:Alex Hirsch
“When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic.” PeopleKindMeanHas BeensEffectsInternetComputerMiracleDramaticChipsMiraculousCellphone Author:Bill Gates
“You can be a lot more subtle on TV, which is funny because I feel like TV is known for being the opposite of that. The thing we experience in life is that things are not overly dramatic, and things often happen in really small ways.” WayFeelsHappensLife IsKnownTvsOppositesDramaticSubtle Author:Jay Duplass
“Jason [Sudeikis] is a successful actor and comedian, I don't think that he takes comedic roles any less seriously than he does dramatic roles.” ThinkingDoeActorsRolesSuccessfulComedianDramaticJasonComedic Author:Taron Egerton
“I decided to try to make a show of my own where I could invite an audience to obsess about race the way I sometimes do. So it was an attempt to dig into the race and history in America, and to make it personal and dramatic.” WayTryingSometimesShowsAmericaMy OwnRaceAudienceDecidedDramaticInvites Author:Steven C. Harper
“At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove through a foreground that always seemed to be incredibly dramatic and incredibly agonised - smoking, burning, incredible compression. In the first year we stayed on the ground and went everywhere. But then in order to discover whether this was the whole story, we rented a helicopter. And we began to understand that this is not chaos but a highly modern system that had been abandoned, then at some point went into reversal, then slowly came out of it.” IfsYearsFirstsWholeStoriesOrderCitiesModernChaosIncrediblesBurningDramaticSmokingAbandonedHelicoptersReversalForegroundCompression Author:Rem Koolhaas
“I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.” ThinkingSidesNarrativeDramatic Author:Paul Lansky
“This is I think a dramatic point for conservatives. They are waking up to the fact that this guy, that Donald Trump has an ability to speak to people who they thought were theirs ideologically, people who they thought were a part of their team.” PeopleThinkingFactsGuySpeakAbilityTeamTrumpWake UpDramaticWakingThis GuyAbility To Speak Author:Ben Domenech
“It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I liked watching her. The part, though, isn't filled in. When Baker announces that she's gotten too used to the madness of Afghanistan, that she's worried she's thinking of it as normal, the sentiment comes out of nowhere. The dramatic arc in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" is nonexistent. The movie evaporates in the mind like water in the Afghan desert.” ThinkingMindDoeHardJobsFacesUsedActorsWaterNormalMadnessFilledScreensComicDesertWorriedDramaticSentimentsAfghanistanPullingGood JobWhiskeyArcsBakersTangoAfghanFeyFilled In Author:David Edelstein
“Well you'd see a very dramatic change in the perspective of small businesses, entrepreneurs, middle-size businesses, and perhaps even some large multinationals. They'd say, you know what, America looks like a good place to invest again, a good place to take risk, a good place to hire again.” KnowsWellsLooksAmericaRiskMiddlePerspectiveEntrepreneurSizeDramaticSmall BusinessGood PlaceMultinationalsDramatic Change Author:Mitt Romney
“The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.” PeopleMotherFatherSituationCrazyBrotherLifetimeRaisedStrangerDramaticMy BrotherOver ItMy SisterChill Author:Angel Olsen
“People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."” PeopleMayMomentsStoriesMiracleTransformationAwakeningPursueDramaticTranscendence Author:Dan Millman
“I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.” CharacterStoriesFeelingsSidesActingEmotionConflictIntenseDramaticThings I LoveLove FeelingIntense Emotions Author:Aaron Paul
“Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.” GamesLandscapeDramaticMassiveAfghanistanGeopolitical Author:Tim Hetherington
“I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.” ComedyTasteDramaticAdore Author:Jonah Hill
“As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.” WritingActorsComedyHavensDramaDramaticDramatic Writing Author:Jonah Hill
“My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.” MadeSaidCharacterPurposeDramaticGrandmaMy Grandma Author:Nicole Holofcener
“The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.” FirstsBigsRememberRevolutionSlaveScalesExperimentsDramaticRegimesEmancipationLarge ScaleHaitianHaitian Revolution Author:Laurent Dubois
“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.” HumansSocialHuman BeingsAbilityEffectsDramaticGrandmotherSanityMy GrandmotherOne Direction Author:James Earl Jones
“To me, always just - that scene is, like, so convenient. They never run out of bullets in action movies, unless it's at the most dramatic time possible.” RunningActionSceneDramaticBulletsConvenientAction Movie Author:Seth Rogen
“I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian.” PeopleThinkingDifferentDoneShowsActorsCareersBackgroundsComedianIronyDramaticComedicPedigreeDaily Show Author:Aasif Mandvi
“Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?” IfsThinkingLittlesHardFunDistanceComplicatedDramatic Author:Norah Jones
“Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.” SettingSettingsDramaticIpodsSoundtracks Author:Catherine Sanderson
“She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was sly; she always had a witty quip; she had an intensely dramatic presence.” SelfSexComedyRoseDelightWittyDramaticSophisticatedContagiousGypsySlySatiristQuip Author:Karen Abbott
“I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.” FilmLaughingDramatic Author:Mike Birbiglia
“We need all the newfangled web-based Internet spread, you know, social media that can catalyze, you know, some serious consciousness about what's going on. But we also need people on the streets pounding the pavement to make a significant and dramatic appearance to suggest that what's going on here is unacceptable.” PeopleKnowsNeedsSocialConsciousnessStreetsMediaSeriousInternetAppearanceSocial MediaSpreadSignificantDramaticPavement Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.” MomentsWould BeFilmComedyGenreDramatic Author:Paul Rudd
“I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.” ActorsStuffCitiesCareersTheaterBackgroundsComicDramaticComedicSecond City Author:Paul Rudd
“I'm just a small-town New Zealand girl. But, I do think it was incredibly necessary for me. Wild Things wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made some dramatic changes and that all happened in LA.” IfsThinkingMadeGirlHappenedTownsDramaticSmall TownNew ZealandWild ThingsDramatic Change Author:Ladyhawke
“I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTwentiesDramatic Author:Marianne Williamson
“Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.” PeopleThinkingMeanSpeakDramaticTensionComedic Author:Denis Leary
“India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.” IfsWritingFirstsStoriesLiteratureSexAudienceEconomyGrowing UpGrowingMagicInfluenceRevolutionDrugFirst TimeIndiaWesternOpeningIndianDramaticRealismOpening UpSlumsPartitionMagic Realism Author:Karan Bajaj
“I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.” ArtWalksExcitingDramaticHallsAcademyCarnegieCarnegie Hall Author:Gena Rowlands
“I feel most spiritual when I am listening to a soprano voice soaring to the top of its range at the most dramatic point of an aria. It feels like a geyser shooting up from the center of the earth and reaching for the stars.” FeelsEarthSpiritualStarsVoiceListeningShootingRangeDramaticReachingSoarSopranosAriaReaching For The StarsShooting UpGeysers Author:China Forbes
“A child born today will experience an increase to sea level of about three to six feet. The rate of change is so remarkable and so dramatic. We are already seeing the consequences of man-made climate change.” MenChildrenMadeTodayThreeBornLevelsSeeingSeaFeetSixConsequenceIncreaseClimateRateClimate ChangeDramaticRemarkableRate Of Change Author:Jeff Orlowski
“I could be dramatic and go "He saved my life!", but sometimes you just need to see it again. Sometimes you need to see that person want it so badly for all the right reasons, and it makes you realize that no matter what you do you already won.” WantNeedsPersonsSometimesMatterReasonRealizingNo Matter WhatSavedDramaticAlready Won Author:Kevin Drew