Drama Quotes - page 6

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire. (Allegra Huston)
I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is. View quote
Amanda Plummer
Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation. View quote
Andrea Anders
The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen. View quote
Ann Macbeth
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. View quote
Antonia Thomas
It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama. View quote
Asghar Farhadi
I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range. View quote
Bobby Darin
When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training. View quote
Brenda Blethyn
I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period. View quote
Brenda Blethyn
I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. View quote
Brenton Thwaites
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama. (Bruce Beresford)
With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from. View quote
Bruce Greenwood
I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama. View quote
Bruno Heller
I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realized... just go and do it, stop being a knob. View quote
Claire Foy
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. View quote
Conleth Hill
You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama. View quote
Cornel Wilde
I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that. View quote
Catherine Hicks
I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to. View quote
Daveigh Chase
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it. View quote
David Sanborn
I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school. View quote
David Wenham
I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look. (Delta Burke)
I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama. View quote
Dianne Wiest
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off. View quote
Dick Wolf
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love. View quote
Dino De Laurentiis
I am excited to be doing 'SVU' - I think there's a lot of inherent drama and a lot of inherent conflict in procedural shows. I have a lot of respect for police officers and the work that they do. There's a lot of nobility to depicting what these officers do on a day to day basis. View quote
Danny Pino