Dramatic Quotes
In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically.
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.
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.
Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.
We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it.
To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? If I'm a game show host, will I get an offer to do a dramatic role in a movie?
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.
The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns.
My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.
I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.
Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.
Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.
The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
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.
I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
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.
When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.
I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.
I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.
