Drama Quotes

• I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.

  

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Balance

• Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Bad
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • American
  • Drama
  • Greek

• I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and an essay, and I'd never worked in concert with an orchestra.

  

  John Cho
  • Done
  • Drama

• You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Change
  • Baby
  • Sweet

• I may be a princess, but I'm definitely not a drama queen.

  

  Carole Radziwill
  • Drama
  • Princess

• Oooh, the drama in the pageant!

  

  BeBe Zahara Benet
  • Drama
  • Pageant

• We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.

  

  Ivan Reitman
  • Know
  • Drama
  • Movies

• 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
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!'

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Drama
  • Performing
  • Department

• Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

  

  Lily James
  • School
  • Drama

• Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.

  

  Abhinavagupta
  • Dream
  • Drama
  • Felt

• After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

  

  Jenny Eclair
  • School
  • Dad
  • Army

• The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Book
  • Stories
  • Talking

• The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types, but one thing that makes our business special is our loyalty, our fierce commitment to one another, and our mutual respect.

  

  Monica Raymund
  • Business
  • Support
  • Commitment

• Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Life
  • Important
  • Taken

• I would never be her mate in a million years! Carla's a nightmare and annoys the hell out of me. She's the type of person who creates drama wherever she goes, and I'm not like that at all. Plus, she'd probably try to steal my fella!

  

  Alison King
  • Drama
  • Nightmare
  • Carla

• 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.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Role
  • Demands
  • Comedies

• I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Good
  • Drama

• I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

  

  Dawn French
  • School
  • Struggle
  • Drama

• I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main thing in my life, and I was not open to anything else. When I removed tennis from the equation, I didn't know who I was.

  

  Luke Mitchell
  • Life
  • School
  • Tennis

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