Drama Quotes

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

There's no drama like wrestling.

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

'Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie.'

The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.

The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Boys are so much drama.

It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

I love drama. I love to play an arc.

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

I was a drama major through college.

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

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

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

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.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

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

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

It's drama, it's a lot of things, but you know it's always about every movie or every TV project ever made is meant to be watched. If people like it and support it, that's what it is all about, really it's sort of the important part about it.

You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama.

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

Be a perfectionist.

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

Romcoms are challenging, but I'm hungry for drama.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

Original 'Dallas' fans, please come back, because it's the same show 20 years later - same drama.

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.