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I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.
I don't have any specific criteria on doing a drama based on where and what country. If I like the storyline, I'll go for it.
I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.
To write drama is to leave a can of Coke by the side of the road. Then, sit on that can of Coke. Where's the can of Coke now?
I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'
I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.
I like nothing more than a character sacrificing himself or herself for the sake of others. That's drama at its finest for me.
Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so.
I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me.
Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.
I'll let her go. I won't let her go. I have to let her go. I can't let her go. I can let her go. I don't... want to let her go.
I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.
I love Vines. You make this 6.4-second drama, and you can reach 6 million viewer, and make people laugh. I find it so fabulous.
Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy.
I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.
Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
I really enjoy comedy, but I also still really enjoy the drama aspect. So, I don't like to narrow my possible chances out there.
My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.
Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.
I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.
I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.
If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
I'm on my feet, pacing around the room, punching a fist into my palm, which I stop doing when I realise how drama queen it feels.
Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.
Boys don't mature. They just age. But aged boys know how to flow with a different destination, and to shine with different color.
Marriage, at first, may seem like it will last forever. But surprisingly, a lot of the times, it shatters easily. Like porcelain.
It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.
In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
It's a very important skill set for an actor to be able to bring the humor into any moment, whether you're doing drama or comedy.
Say a miracle happened and you could pull stars from the sky. Even if that happened there's no way I would give up a game for you.
I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.
I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.
I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.
Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.