Steven Spielberg Quotes
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
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I would love to see some comedies about loser women.
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It is less artificial than his other comedies. The epigrams do not seem to have been added on like candied cherries on a cake.
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Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.
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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
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I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants to play those dark roles and it's definitely true for me and I'd love to kind of challenge myself in any way possible.
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
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I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.
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It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
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There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.
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The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.
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To be honest with you, the dramatic side is more fun to play because I don't get to do it as often as I get to do the comedy stuff. Most of my work in this business has been comedy, and that's sort of the way the cookie crumbles. I had not sought out to just be a comedic actor, but I think that's my default because I come from a funny family.
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The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
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Since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in a little devotion. At first their plan succeeded, but now no one can bear their comedies.
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Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.
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I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.'
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.
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...I think there's only one thing that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline and cooperation.
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I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.
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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
