No Drama Quotes

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

The excruciating moments of drama are when people are allowed to show or say what they feel.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing comedies, as well as dramas.

I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.

I've done loads of things people have never seen, dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush, and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.

I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!

Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in "The Wild Duck," and I afterward had her killed, so there will be no more of that out of her.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

I wished I stayed at the movies, where I could have at least had some popcorn with my drama.

It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

Drama is what you do when you have a dream while you're awake.

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now!

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years worth of graduates behind me.

I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

You know, I've always wanted to do dramas.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.

I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.