Quotes about drama
drama school hard-work
What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe. Joan Collins
drama years nine
I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact. Joan Collins
drama kids school
I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon. Loudon Wainwright III
drama writing men
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible. Leo Tolstoy
drama comedy chaplin
When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy. Leslie Nielsen
drama school yale
My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation. Lewis Black
drama century has-beens
The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. Leonard Bernstein
drama doors ordinary
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families. Joyce Maynard
drama character greatness
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character. Joseph Wood Krutch
drama good-drama drastic
Good drama must be drastic. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
drama book trying
I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel. Monica Ali
drama thinking looks
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. Peter Billingsley
drama commitment thinking
I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama. Peter Billingsley
drama understanding theatre
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. Peter Brook
drama play gone
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. Penelope Keith
drama careers history
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. Phil Crosby
drama mean thinking
I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, 'Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?' I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working. Peter Sellers
drama oscars serious
I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama. Phoebe Tonkin
drama father struggle
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama. Rachel Griffiths
drama want world
I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world. Rachel Dratch
drama gmos psychology
But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology. Rachel Dratch
drama friendly watches
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
drama admire theatrical
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage. Gustav Mahler
drama glasses lenses
Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens. Gore Verbinski
drama thinking hands
I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand. Gore Verbinski
drama cities fantasy
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. Gilbert K. Chesterton
drama enemy patterns
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. John Dryden
drama play vehemence
The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action. John Dryden
drama past men
Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning...
drama love-is guy
I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most. John Leguizamo
drama thinking continuing-on
I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama. John Landgraf
drama angel glasses
Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie. John Lahr
drama past thinking
In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding. John Lahr