Drama Quotes - Page 32

• Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

  Gabriel Macht

  Fans, Honestly, Wells

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• I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.

  Glen Mazzara

  Firsts, Honest, Crash

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• I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat clowns and I thought, 'If I want to have the career I would like, I am going to have to lose weight.' I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot. I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

  Harry Melling

  Moving, School, Men

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• It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

  Vince Vaughn

  Comedy, Extremes, Great Comedy

  "HitFix Q&A: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James take a new tack in ‘The Dilemma’". Interview with Katie Hasty, November 23, 2010.

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• I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.

  Kevin Whately

  Trying, Watches, Detectives

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• I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.

  Merritt Wever

  Art, New York, School

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• A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.

  Rebel Wilson

  Brother, Struggle, Two

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• Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a bit, ennobling us with the proper drama and tension and pathos.

  Jonathan Hull

  Long, Interesting, Needs

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic oral biography of President Bill Clinton. Aspect by aspect, it guides us through the struggles of postmodern America, as the most ambitious baby boomer of his generation seeks to modernize the Democratic Party-and, as in a Greek drama, is fated to be destroyed. Veritably, an all-American saga, with a cast of thousands-favorable and unfavorable.

  Nigel Hamilton

  Baby, Party, Struggle

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• I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.

  Kaya Scodelario

  School, Ideas, Different

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

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• Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

  David Whyte

  Mistake, Great Mistakes, Ifs

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.50, Penguin

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• Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

  Dick Cavett

  Running, Tragedy, One Day

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• To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.

  Mick LaSalle

  Thinking, Waiting Rooms, Wish

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• The information age is so psychotic - without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Cells, Phones, Age

  Lauren Barnholdt (2007). “Two-way Street”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.

  Howard Hawks

  Gun, Form, Western

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• Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Karma, Letting Go, Laughter

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• For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.

  Dan Colen

  Crazy, People, Design

  Interview with Ryan McGinley, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I started drama in high school.

  Daniel Cudmore

  School, High School

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• I just love drama. I love the idea of exploring relationships, whatever they may be. That's fun for me.

  Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

  Fun, Ideas, May

  "One on One with Emayatzy Corinealdi of ‘Middle of Nowhere’". S&A Interview, shadowandact.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

  Jenna Coleman

  Emotion, Rage, Periods

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

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• A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.

  Mike O'Malley

  Successful, Winning, Years

  "TC with Mike O'Malley". Interview with Tom Caron, archive.boston.com. October 30, 2008.

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• I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

  Faith Prince

  Serious, Comedy

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• We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.

  William Winwood Reade

  Animal, Two, Atmosphere

  William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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• I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

  Katie Leung

  Running, School, Swans

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• Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

  Rob McElhenney

  Needs, Comedy, Certain

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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