Drama Quotes - Page 27

• There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

  Erika Slezak

  School, People, Training

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• 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.

  Hayley Atwell

  School, Men, Years

  "Hayley Atwell Interview - BRIDESHEAD REVISTED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 8, 2008.

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• I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.

  Kate Burton

  Dad, School, Opportunity

  "Emmys 2012: Six Shows in One Season? Kate Burton, Daughter Of Sir Richard, Did It (Q&A)". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

  Kurt Busiek

  Superhero, Larger Than Life, Aspect

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.

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• I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.

  Paget Brewster

  Adventure, Done, Radio

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• I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.

  Peter Billingsley

  Thinking, Looks, Comedy

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• I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.

  Alison Brie

  Comedy, Enjoy

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2010.

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• But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

  Amanda Burton

  School, Sitting, Goes On

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• I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

  Amanda Burton

  School, Cutting, Theatre

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• Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You're shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different.

  James Belushi

  Friday, Night, Play

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• I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.

  James Belushi

  Night, Thinking, Theatre

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• Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

  Kathy Bates

  Comedy

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• I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

  Rachel Bilson

  Romantic Love, Comedy

  "Rachel Bilson: Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 3, 2011.

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• My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Holiday, Athens, Able

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• I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.

  Eliza Coupe

  Comedian, Female, Roles

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

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• You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

  Emilia Clarke

  School, Thinking, Years

  "Alfie Allen & Emilia Clarke chat 'Game Of Thrones'". www.digitalspy.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Teacher, Mean, Branches

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

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• When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I'd never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in Drama and I knew I wanted to be an actor.

  Kim Coates

  Taken, School, Opportunity

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  Laura Carmichael

  Jobs, Teaching, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.

  Alan Cumming

  Kids, School, Years

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• I really like playing the bad guy. There are so many more objectives to play when you're mad or villainesque, or when there's some agenda that you have. That's drama, that's where the heart lives. I love playing the bad guy, but especially the bad guy who's still with the girl.

  Keegan Allen

  Girl, Heart, Play

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

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• I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

  Adam Arkin

  Mean, Commitment, Long

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

  Olivia Colman

  School, Lady Macbeth, Serious Things

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• I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Cheerleading, Crazy, Squad

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• They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

  Lynn Collins

  Texas

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

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