Caroline Polachek Quotes

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

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• Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • School
  • Thought
  • Drama

• It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Job
  • College
  • Drama

• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Song
  • Drama

• I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Live
  • True
  • Think

• No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Me
  • Drama
  • Obama

• What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • You
  • Content

• Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Model
  • Library
  • Partner

• I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • Family
  • Play
  • Drama

• Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to seek out stuff that sort of more along the lighter fare. I have more fun on those sets than I do on drama sets just because when it's heavy, it's heavy, and it's hard to get away from it.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Religious
  • Democracy
  • Drama

• I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Why
  • Happy

• There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Different
  • Family
  • Movie

• It's, like, your classic journey from a drama school. I went straight to the three-year acting degree, and I waitressed throughout that to support myself and for the first six months after I graduated. Then I started to get commercials here and there, and then I got a couple of roles in Australia and then a more regular role on a TV series.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • School
  • Support
  • Myself

• I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Fun
  • Couple
  • Drama

• I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Content
  • Prefer

• When I first started Lion Babe, I wore a lot of denim to perform in because I had a limited closet. A lot of the time, I was in cutoff shorts - either dark or light denim - and then I would pair them with whatever top I had.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Time
  • Light
  • Dark

• People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

  

  Emily Robison
  • People
  • Girl
  • Band

• Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I know-yet my arms are empty,That fondly folded seven,And the mother heart within meIs almost starved for heaven.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Heaven

• I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Good
  • Business
  • Movie

• No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

  

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