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A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad. -- Lenny Kravitz
In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. -- John F. Kennedy
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? -- Norah Jones
Bold. Risky. Dramatic. I approve. -- Rachel Vincent
Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality -- Mira Grant
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. -- Bette Davis
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. -- Nicholas Sparks
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. -- Shelley Berman
I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career. -- David Naughton
I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there. -- Luke Grimes
I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it. -- Gena Rowlands
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
In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION. -- Samuel Richardson
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long. -- Michael Douglas
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic. -- Idries Shah
I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall. -- Fred Gwynne
There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, "You're only as good as you dare to be bad." -- David Copperfield
When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in. -- Stephanie Beacham
Italians have no sense of the dramatic. -- Jose Carreras
In real life, events seem much less dramatic. -- Jessica Savitch
Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical. -- Steve Wynn
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. -- J. K. Rowling
Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life. -- Nas
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor. -- Ben Stiller
I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday. -- Rufus Wainwright
I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic. -- Lana Del Rey
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap. -- Colin Mochrie
Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do -- Sherilyn Fenn
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. -- David Byrne
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. -- Steven Levy
Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it's such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It's very sleek. -- Bryan Batt
I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it. -- Hilary Duff
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign. -- Rudy Giuliani
You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors. -- Owen Wilson
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. -- Carlisle Floyd
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
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. -- Ken Follett
I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me! -- Courtney Love
I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. -- Rob Lowe
Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not. -- Ben Folds
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together. -- Lukas Foss
I used the stormy gray and heather brown shadows from the Lilac Rose Eye Palette to create a soft smokey eye for Veronica Beard's Spring 2013 show. The look was dramatic but delicate. -- Bobbi Brown
I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic. -- Topher Grace
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. -- John Lithgow
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. -- David Nevins
You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder. -- Salma Hayek
I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging. -- Clint Eastwood
Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception. -- Maximillian Degenerez
Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none. -- Kurt Vonnegut
There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged. -- Felicia Day
Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him. -- John Ritter
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic first and realistic second. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
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. -- Richard Lamm
I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason. -- Evan Peters
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension. -- Richard Dooling
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. -- Dwayne Johnson
Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion -- Lisa Miller
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic. -- Novalis
Never underestimate the power of dramatic lips. -- Laura Mercier
Nothing is more dramatic than a well-placed pause. -- Carmine Gallo
I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic. -- Carmen Electra
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. -- Jane Fonda
I've never been over-dramatic in my whole career. -- Serena Williams
I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. -- Neil LaBute
I never can resist a touch of the dramatic. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person. -- Viva Bianca
I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip. -- Natalia Kills
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. -- Richard Flanagan
To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. -- Katharine Anthony
I found Celebrity Gangster intense, dramatic, a real page turner. -- Irwin Winkler
Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people. -- Walter Rodney
Sex, love and death are universal and timeless dramatic themes. -- Julia Ormond
I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner. -- Irwin Winkler
I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. -- Harold Ramis
A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show. -- Nunnally Johnson
Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground. -- Andrew Mitchell
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict. -- James Frey
Some of the best dramatic actors have started in comedy. -- J. B. Smoove
I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles. -- Owen Wilson
He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. -- Nicolas Cage
West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things. -- David Hockney
I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real. -- Daveigh Chase
Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day. -- Jennifer Aniston
A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched. -- Jane McGonigal
After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging. -- Marla Gibbs
A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences. -- George Weigel
Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes. -- Tyson Chandler
I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines. -- Maud Welzen
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change. -- Philip Levine
I live a dramatic life, it's just not on TV yet. -- Marc Wallice
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone -- Nick Hornby
In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic. -- Sophie Kennedy Clark
A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene. -- Joel Surnow
The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic. -- Pierre Schaeffer
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. -- Francine Prose
I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting]. -- Rowan Atkinson
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history. -- Oliver Stone
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. -- Robert Morgan
The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security. -- Leon Panetta
I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change. -- Lionel Hampton
Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role -- Dinah
Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it. -- Allen Wier
I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film. -- James Mangold
Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role. -- Dinah Sheridan
You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes -- Chi McBride
Within the framework of something very dramatic, funny things happen. Organically, from them. -- Gloria Calderon Kellett
Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream. -- Demi Lovato
Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective. -- Janet Frame
In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together. -- Margaret Halsey
I'm a fan of half-hour shows that can be both funny and dramatic. -- Hank Stuever
I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic. -- Demetri Martin
Whoever said that a straighten hand was more dramatic than a healed heart? -- Ted Dekker

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