Drama Quotes
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I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.
Evan Peters
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It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.
Charles Edward Merriam
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You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.
Tony Kushner
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I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a drama. I really liked that; I thought it was interesting. A lot of my favorite comedies play out as dramas.
Zach Woods
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
Thomas Hardy
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I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.
Danny McBride
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In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?
C.D. Innes
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The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
Ann Macbeth
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'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.
Elvis Mitchell
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I've always felt like the reason I became an actor is because I look for more high drama than what I had at home.
Marin Hinkle
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I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.
Andre Leon Talley
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I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.
James Callis
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Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
Dick Wolf
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I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.
Kathy Baker
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I was hellbent on going to drama school, but my mother, rightly, panicked and persuaded me to go to university on the grounds that a degree would be 'something to fall back on.' Whilst at college, I realised I wasn't good enough or robust enough to be an actress.
Phyllida Lloyd
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Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had this arrogance - 'We don't want to typecast ourselves.' But I said, 'I want to do Irish parts. That's the thing that's gonna give me the leg up.'
Brian F. O'Byrne
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Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
Allison Janney
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The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.
Jason Alexander
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I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.
Colin Firth
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I'd love to be in a period drama, though my dream role is to be in a film with Ray Winstone and Tom Hardy.
Lauren Socha
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When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing networks, and they seem to compete for the same established names for those projects.
Jamie Bamber
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For people who don't know or didn't know that I started off as a singer, singing requires a certain level of drama, in itself. Honestly, it really prepared me to do this, and I've been really blessed to be able to transition into the acting world very smoothly.
Naturi Naughton 3LW
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A comic book and a straight drama all have the same elements. If you're playing tragedy, you have to be aware of the comedy; if you're playing comedy, you have to be aware of the tragedy. If you're playing comic book, you have to be aware of the reality.
Jeremy Irons
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If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
Edward Albee