Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Thomas

We find it disturbing that the networks in question seem to have no problem exploiting gay persons through mindless comedies or titillating dramas, but when it comes to a church's loving welcome of committed gay couples, that's where they draw the line.

Mike Birbiglia

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

George Hickenlooper

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

Tim Horan

We plan to make three feature-length movies for theatrical release this year, probably comedies because that is what works well for local production and we already have a stable of good comedy writers from our television sitcoms.

Alan Alda

Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.

Dax Shepard

There's like a shift in the paradigm about every 15 years in movies because one would slip through the cracks. I think if they were more inexpensive you would see many more eclectic comedies being made.

Josh Trank

There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.

Catherine Hardwicke

I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.

Illeana Douglas

It is nice to do an independent film that can be a commercial hit. I think comedies do really well. I wish more independent films were comedies.

John Eaton

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

Marcia Gay Harden

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.

Tuppence Middleton

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

James Nesbitt

People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.

Duniya Vijay

The aim is to move from doing just action dramas to establishing myself as someone who can do family dramas as well.

Andre Agassi

I still put myself through the same dramas that I used to and always have,

Bill Hader

I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.

Francia Raisa

I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

Nathan Fielder

Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Bear Grylls

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Audrina Patridge

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

August Strindberg

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

Arthur Rubinstein

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Gene Meyers

We actually had a little sunshine. It turned out to be a pretty good day. We had a lot of p.r.'s.

David Brainerd

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Alain de Botton

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Al Davis

Time never stops for the great ones

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Kevin Wilson

I have a kind of unhealthy obsession with movies.

Tessa Thompson

I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies.

Tyler Perry

I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.

Lena Olin

I consume music the way other people consume movies.

Yoda

Luke: What's in there? Yoda: Only what you take with you.

Elvis Presley

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Ehren Kruger

The movies that will truly be successful will feel different than the movies of the year before.

Eiza Gonzalez

When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.

Taylor Handley

Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman—who is only a mere superhero.

Gene Luen Yang

'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.

Charlie Cox

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

Charlotte Ross

I don't see myself becoming a superhero.

Bill Bixby

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Donald Glover

When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.

Ewan McGregor

I'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.

Melissa Rosenberg

Jessica Jones is the first female superhero Marvel's ever introduced as a lead.

Noel Gallagher

Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that.