Drama Quotes - Page 28

• I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.

  Arthur Darvill

  Years, Littles, Stuff

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• I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.

  Arthur Darvill

  Dark, Thinking, Light

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• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Breakup, Song, Dysfunction

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• I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.

  Kevin Dillon

  Brother, Careers, People

  "Kevin Dillon Talks ‘Entourage’ Ending, Keeping Johnny Drama Alive". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

  Michelle Dockery

  Thinking, Sound, Soap

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

  Michelle Dockery

  School, Discovery, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.

  Agyness Deyn

  School, Training, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

  Doug Davidson

  Winning, Needs, Moments

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• I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Tired, Comedy, Killing

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• 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.

  Julie Delpy

  Warrior, People, Giving

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• My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

  Jennifer Ehle

  School, College, Years

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• Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

  Joel Edgerton

  Thinking, Three, Rooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.

  Jenna Fischer

  Yeah, Hard Core, Knows

  "Interview: Jenna Fischer on A Little Help, Dinner Theater, and Breaking the Pam Mold". Interview with Christine Champ, www.mtv.com. June 7, 2010.

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• When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.

  Michelle Forbes

  People, Political, Fiction

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• Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

  Louise Fletcher

  Thinking, Cameras, Television

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

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• I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

  Will Ferrell

  Thinking, Play, Listening

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• The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

  Adam Garcia

  Queens, Teenage, Phones

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• I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

  Monica Ali

  Book, Trying, Conflict

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• It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Adventure, Character, Imagination

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• I was a drama major through college.

  Creed Bratton

  College, Majors

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• 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.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Kings, Hero, Tables

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• Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

  Grant Bowler

  Layers, Way, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.

  Michael Ealy

  Dream, Intelligent, Two

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• You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

  Michael Ealy

  Children, Thinking, Acting

  "Michael Ealy On Set Interview UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 22, 2011.

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• I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

  Mireille Enos

  Done, Stuff, Tvs

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