The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.
I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.
In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually deploys epiphany as a metaphor. It is usually only in dramatic representations, religious iconography, and the 'magical thinking' of children that insight is compressed to a sudden blinding flash.
Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.
For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.
Maybe I just stay in relationships for too long and then they get really dramatic.
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.
I find myself more affected by music the more I do it. Particularly when you're touring and you're in the bus and you're listening to loads of music. Life becomes far more dramatic, I guess - you're never in the same place, you're constantly meeting new people. You almost become more sensitized to music.
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.
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.
I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.
There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.
People's reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don't, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.
Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.
I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.
I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!