Drama Quotes - Page 40

• When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Stars, School, Ties

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• With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.

  Paddy Considine

  Thinking, Ideas, Acting

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• I think that if youve got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.

  Max Beesley

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

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• I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.

  Liya Kebede

  Want, Comedy, Action

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• You know how theres always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? Im not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.

  Condola Rashad

  Girl, School, Emotional

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• The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

  Ben Wheatley

  Reality, Detectives, Location

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• A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

  A. O. Scott

  Loyalty, Honesty, Ambition

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• Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.

  Jorie Graham

  Beautiful, Brilliant, Honest

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• It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

  William Hazlitt

  Play, Remarkable, Virtuous

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Passion, Gestures, Ruins

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• God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

  Honore de Balzac

  Life, Men, Heaven

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• The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.

  Leigh Hunt

  Running, Laughter, Hands

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• Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

  Meg Greenfield

  Simple, Reality, Media

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• History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Night, Rome

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “A Time In Rome”, p.10, Random House

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• ... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

  Robin Morgan

  Comedy, Life Is, Take Time

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.377, Open Road Media

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• I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

  Harrison Ford

  Exercise, Self, Way

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• Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

  Rebecca West

  Real, Home, Personality

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

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• Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Attention, Massive, Self-importance

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• Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.

  Shana Alexander

  Fashion, Song, Art

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

  Shana Alexander

  Mind, Should, Theater

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

  Shana Alexander

  Aquariums, Play, Agendas

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• Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Dream, Moving, Persistence

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.551, Library of America

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• It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hurt, Flames, Fans

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• I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

  Frank Oz

  Different, Done, Bops

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will always be appendages of those kinds of dramas, or they will be comedic outlets. It will never change.

  Haile Gerima

  Character, White, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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