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It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.
I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen.
What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.
The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.
There's enough drama in my life whether I want it or not. There's enough going on right now to keep my head spinning all the time.
My 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.
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.
Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."
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.
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.
The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
What should I do? The person I really like...I told him not to play with bad people. But he won't listen. Really, what should I do?
I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.
I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.
I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.
What love it to me...is his happiness. I'm not like you where I fall in love so I can be happy. All I need is for him to be smiling.
I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.
Some birdies were about a family with hardships. Other days, birdie was a selfless teacher. And birdie from before is my first love.
When I would feel down...I'd have some noodles father prepared, and all the worries I had that day...Poof! They would all disappear.
A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.
I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.
I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama.
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
My husband and I don't want Hollywood drama. I go to the market and do the dishes. I'm not treated differently because I work on TV.
Devotion is not drama. Devotion is a way of living. Devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and the way your heart beats.
Why wouldn't I be able to look at you? You're not my woman and I don't even have feelings for you. You really mean nothing to me now.
I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.
I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.
I think its natural if youre doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.
The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
When I become a character in a movie or drama... I can think about the character only and not the complicated matters of my own life.
The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. "Save the drama for your mama " I told her just like an eleven-year-old.
The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.
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 owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
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.
If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.
When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious.