Drama Quotes

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

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.

You know how you're supposed to choose between playing up your eyes or your lips? I always choose lips. I love the drama.

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.