No Drama Quotes
I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.
I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.
Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.
As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.
I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.
Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning
Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune.
"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right to vote.
Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.
The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.
John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.
Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.
I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.
It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.
I believed that doing what the other person wanted was love. I did that, and for more than a thousand years I have regretted it. I don't want to repeat the same mistake.
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?
There's so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics.
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.
The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention
I realized that I spent more time thinking about my problem clients than my great clients. I had to stop feeding the drama of the problem clients-and other problems in my life.
I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like Welcome to the Dollhouse, I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.
Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.
So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.
I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.
It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.
For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.
I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.
When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.
I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.
Physicality is the basis of performance.
I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.