Drama Quotes - Page 29

• It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Everyday, Events, Littles

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• When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Theater, Valuable, Knows

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

  Ron Smothermon

  Dream, Definitions, Awake

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• I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.

  Dave Chappelle

  Fun, Want, Shows

  "Dave Chappelle comes clean on 'Oprah'" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. February 3, 2006.

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• As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.

  Jason Clarke

  School, Judging, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

  Rachel Dratch

  World, Branches, Want

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• If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.

  Mark Feuerstein

  Procedures, Shows, Sitcom

  "Jeffrey Donovan, Matt Bomer and Mark Feuerstein — The Boys of Summer". Interview with David Hochman, www.tvguide.com. June 15, 2010.

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• You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

  Michael Fassbender

  Teacher, School, Interesting

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 8, 2011.

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• In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Criticism, Narrative, Etc

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• Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

  Kyle Gallner

  Believe, Animal, Different

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

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• Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

  Lesley Garrett

  Football, Opera, Cost

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Comedy, Kind, Shows

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• I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something.

  Brian Helgeland

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

  Bruno Heller

  Giving, Watches, Tvs

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• I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.

  Bruno Heller

  Mean, Thinking, Light

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• Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

  John Michael Higgins

  Comedy, Tension

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• I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.

  John Michael Higgins

  Men, Intelligent, Play

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Teacher, School, Theater

  Interview with Sarah Paulson, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Loss, Friendly

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• I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.

  Evan Peters

  Silly, Thinking, Serious

  "Evan Peters Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, Establishing His Character this Season and Working with Jessica Lange and James Cromwell". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2012.

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• With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you're not an actor or some crazy artist, you don't feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it's painful.

  Josh Peck

  Running, Crazy, Artist

  "Josh Peck Talks RED DAWN, How He Landed the Role, Watching the Original Film, Boot Camp Training, Working with Chris Hemsworth and Hopes to Direct". Interview, collider.com. November 20, 2012.

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• 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.

  Eric Ladin

  Home, Painful Death, Television

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• I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.

  David Oyelowo

  School, Done, Saws

  "In my head, this is massive" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

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• One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

  David Oyelowo

  Doe, Periods

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• I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

  Amanda Plummer

  Dirty, Mean, Roles

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

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