Drama Quotes - Page 26

• Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.

  John Lahr

  Angel, Glasses, Play

  "Angels on the Verge" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.

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• In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.

  John Lahr

  Past, Thinking, Giving

  John Lahr (2015). “Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals”, p.408, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.

  John Lahr

  Art, Practice, Magazines

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• The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

  William Greider

  Political, Events, Covering

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• In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

  Julian Fellowes

  Successful, People, Care

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• What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.

  Julian Fellowes

  Light, Periods

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

  Sarah Silverman

  Interesting, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

  Christopher Parker

  School, Class, Parent

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• So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

  James Earl Jones

  Girl, School, College

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.

  David Jeremiah

  Drinking, Wine, Squares

  Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “Prayer, the Great Adventure”, p.92, Multnomah

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• American radio is the reverse of the Shakespearean stage. In Shakespeare's time the world's greatest dramas were acted with the most primitive technical arrangements; on the American air the world's most primitive writing is performed under perfect technical conditions.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Writing

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• I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Perfection, Theatre

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• Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

  Milton Avery

  Nature, Wind Blowing, Color

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• The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.

  Hu Shih

  Joy, Together, Renaissance

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

  Sean William Scott

  Wanted, Knows

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• Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

  James Fenton

  Littles, Poetic, Wealth

  "A licence for drama" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2002.

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• Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

  Dylan McDermott

  Dark, Thinking, Blue

  "Dylan McDermott Interview DARK BLUE Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2010.

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• I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Children, Media, Happenings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

  Steve Carell

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

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• I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.

  Steve Carell

  Order, People, Want

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• I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

  Dustin Clare

  School, Thinking, Australia

  "Dustin Clare SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 23, 2012.

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• I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Girl, Growing Up, Guy

  "Aimee Teegarden Dishes on Her Teen Years!". www.seventeen.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

  Jay Baruchel

  Sports, Reading, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  Vincent Cassel

  New York, School, Thinking

  "France's most wanted". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Next Day, Different, Done

  "Gael Garcia Bernal, ‘Casa de Mi Padre’ Star, On His Upcomming Role As Zorro". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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