Drama Quotes

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

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

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

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

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect.