The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.

Most movies now are drama, and the commercially successful ones are, sadly, about adulterous relationships.

Drama is basically what I do, so it's a compliment that people think it's hard for me to get back to drama.

For me, I really like the human drama embedded in a crime story, and I like the way European films do that.

Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.

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

I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.

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

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

The secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.

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

I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.

I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much.

If I call myself an actor, it sounds like I'm trying to pass myself off as someone who went to drama school.

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

Your thoughts and emotions are the drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

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

You're going to have an upset stomach. If you eat spicy stiff because you're upset, then you'll get diarrhea.

Show him your soft side too. Being too pretty and smart... Guys don't like when a woman is better than a man.

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

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

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

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.

Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

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.

When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

If you give up, it's over. But if you don't give up, the day will come when you'll be glad you didn't give up.

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.

I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.

Instead of an elegant warning, you need to bring a strong deal. That's the only way you'll gain what you want.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

I will test a guy to within an inch of his sanity because I've been through too much drama. He has to be 100%.

Are you smiling? I'm so angry it kills me. So angry I'm going crazy. I'm just going to wait today. Just today.

To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.

Life is always full of drama and challenges, but you don't have to overreact to any of it if you choose not to.

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