- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drama Quotes
On working across drama, comedy, and the space between them.
These are quotes from people who work in drama rather than about domestic drama — actors describing a role's realism, a band admitting no album comes without friction, and a career built moving between comedic and dramatic parts. See Dramatic quotes for a related angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.'
- Doorstep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
- Matt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a natural drama queen when I was younger. I was always doing impersonations and showing off.
- Different Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020