Drama Quotes

The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn't think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.

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

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

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

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

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

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

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

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

I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.