- Psychology
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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
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do like comedy and drama.
- Nerd
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- Nov 07, 2020
The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
In drama school, I learned I wasn't as good as I thought I was. But I loved stage combat, and I knew that would pay the bills.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.
- Acting Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.
- Radio
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out more interested in drama, but comedy just came naturally to me, and it's become what I'm most known for, even though my sensibilities still lean towards the dramatic for the most part.
- Romantic
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- Nov 07, 2020
3D is obviously not as suited to drama and romantic comedies. But for what I do, I felt that 3D was a very, very appropriate technology.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020