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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I almost failed one drama course. All the actors talked in phony accents. It shocked me. I went out for track instead.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to do a drama.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.
- Junior
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
- Elizabethan
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- Nov 07, 2020
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.
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The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic.
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- Nov 07, 2020