Bruce Barcott Quotes
A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.
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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.'
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I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.
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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.
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Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
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I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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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.
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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
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I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'
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Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
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The margin between success and drama is fractional.
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.
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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
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We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
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Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
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I've made my peace with myself.
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I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
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A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.
