Drama Quotes - Page 30

• I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

  Michael Pena

  Balance, Add, Actors

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• I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

  Missi Pyle

  School, Play, Performing

  "Diva Talk: Chatting With Bare Star Missi Pyle". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

  Oren Peli

  Character, Thinking, Balance

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• I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.

  Busy Philipps

  Careers, Able, Range

  "Busy Philipps Exclusive Interview JASON NASH IS MARRIED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 25, 2010.

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• I am excited to be doing 'SVU' - I think there's a lot of inherent drama and a lot of inherent conflict in procedural shows. I have a lot of respect for police officers and the work that they do. There's a lot of nobility to depicting what these officers do on a day to day basis.

  Danny Pino

  Thinking, Police, Conflict

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• There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

  Jim Parsons

  Mean, Cameras, Way

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 1, 2009.

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• I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.

  Todd Phillips

  Documentaries, Scared, Horror

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

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• As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

  Tom Perrotta

  Writing, Temptation, Novel

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• My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.

  Tom Perrotta

  Children, Play, Cities

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• I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.

  Amy Ryan

  Fun, Sound, Costumes

  "Here, Baby, Here! Amy Ryan on The Office and Win Win". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 18, 2011.

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• I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.

  Michael Rooker

  School, Makeup, Cake

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 18, 2011.

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• So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.

  Bill Rancic

  Real, Fake, Bulls

  "How Marathons Can Save Your Marriage". Interview with Markham Heid, www.menshealth.com. June 28, 2011.

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• People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Thinking, Doors, People

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. February 07, 2005.

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• It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

  Lance Reddick

  School, Character, Careers

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.

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• When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.

  Cobie Smulders

  Relax, Watches, Want

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• I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

  Octavia Spencer

  Thinking, People, Comedian

  "Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Crazy, Dark, Play

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• I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Style, Pace, Comedy

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• I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

  Ben Stiller

  People, Expectations, Upset

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• Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.

  David Sanborn

  Thinking, Smooth Jazz, Needs

  "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.

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• Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• Your inner peace has nothing to do with your dramas of your life.

  Susan Jeffers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

  John Leguizamo

  Love Is, Guy, Funny Guy

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• I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.

  Geoff Stults

  Blessed, Careers, Long

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• I'd love to do a drama.

  Jason Sudeikis

  "A Minute With: Jason Sudeikis getting a 'Hall Pass'". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. February 23, 2011.

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