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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 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.
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.
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.
I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.
Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.
Fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?
As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
When you finish a drama, you go, 'I can't wait to do a comedy.' When you finish a comedy, you go, 'I want to do a dramedy, dark humor.'
I think if I had joined the Army early, I would not have been able to appear in the drama 'Boys over Flowers' and had such a happy 20s.
When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It's camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever seriously consider it.
Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.
I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.
It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.
I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have the right connections to do well.
In my real life, hard work, doing my job, working well with others and finding solutions without drama has never gotten me fired before.
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.
I would love to do a sweeping romantic period drama, like Jane Eyre. That would be my dream. It's always been my dream, as far as acting.
Principles are like sheaths. It doesn't have the sharp edge to cut something, but it can cover that sharp edge. So that no one gets hurt.
We have to understand (this is another key piece) that there are some individuals who still need that drama, that experience of violence.
I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.
The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.
As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
I want to do drama - no one really sees that. People just think I'm the funny guy and I can't do anything else, and that's just not true.
I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing comedies, as well as dramas.
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.
How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?
I didn't go to drama school, so I didn't really have many true friends in the business; 'Game Of Thrones' has definitely brought me that.
Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy.
As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.
I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.
Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of sadness.
I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.
I failed my exams and my driving test. I failed to get into the Foreign Office and drama school. The big F was dominant in my early years.
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.
I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.
Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.