Top 100 Quotes About Dramas
#1. I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.
Tobias Lindholm
#3. In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.
Mia Kirshner
#4. Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up to are also very funny.
Adam Brody
#5. I'd like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other - coming to a theatre near you!
Joseph Mazzello
#6. All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.
Idris Elba
#8. I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.
Tom Hardy
#9. I've always loved ... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.
Sam Raimi
#10. I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes.
Julian Sands
#11. So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors aeons ago.
Olaf Stapledon
#12. Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
Marcia Gay Harden
#13. There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.
Gene Kelly
#14. My dramas mostly involved whats-as in, What on earth is that horrible creature about to rip out my throat?
Kiersten White
#15. Your inner peace has nothing to do with your dramas of your life.
Susan Jeffers
#16. I smile at the phone, wishing Reggie could see me.
'You're alright then, luv? No dramas?'
'Not a one.' I reach the kitchen. 'Thanks for thinking about me.'
'Gotta look after my girl. Only one I got.'
My smile gets even bigger.
Bill Condon
#17. Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
Mark Rothko
#18. But since the Obsidian Order - perennial of cheap dramas and bogeymen of children's stories - had
Django Wexler
#19. My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.
Norman Lock
#20. All the genres are so blended nowadays. There are lots of comedies out there that are more realistic than dramas, and some dramas out there that are so broad and wacky that they don't even pass for a broad, wacky comedy.
Madeline Zima
#21. Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.
Tom Shales
#22. A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
Emily Blunt
#23. I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
Bruce Forsyth
#24. Our reality is the thoughts and dramas we see in our mental movies. We
Tara Brach
#25. I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there's something so fun about doing a comedy. When you go to set and your only job is to make people laugh, there's an unbelievable energy on set.
Skylar Astin
#26. Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.
Rob McElhenney
#27. No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.
Aldo Leopold
#28. The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.
John Barrowman
#29. People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.
James Nesbitt
#30. I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
Caity Lotz
#31. There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#32. I get a lot of dramas, but I'd like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that'd be a nice step for me. No more screaming or running or shooting ... for one movie where I can just be in love with a boy.
Serinda Swan
#33. I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.
Ali MacGraw
#34. TV dramas function as vehicles for remodeling female subjects for the new social order - in other words, as an agent for change.
Jie Yang
#35. People feel that drama is more important. Dramas always earn more honors than comedy.
Letty Aronson
#36. The skies she retained in memory were dramas of cloud and sea storm, or the electric sheen before summer thunder in the city, always belonging to the energies of sheer weather, of what was out there, air masses, water vapor, westerlies.
Don DeLillo
#37. I love mystery novels ... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
Natasha Trethewey
#38. I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.
Clive Owen
#39. I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.
Geoff Stults
#40. I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.
Dominic West
#41. I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
Jodie Foster
#42. It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good.
Jonah Hill
#43. The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
Barry Marshall
#44. I don't think because a story has humor in it means it's brief. For some reason, people think anything that's 30 minutes is a comedy, comedies can be longer or shorter, so can dramas.
Judd Apatow
#45. There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to. I think audiences are clamoring to connect - particularly after 9/11 - with things that are genuine and real and I think documentaries are filling that need.
George Hickenlooper
#46. I think people are tired of the CSI/SVU style of lurid and gory crime dramas. I believe there's a craving for lighter shows featuring detective characters who are fun to watch. I think people would welcome that kind of show.
Carol Higgins Clark
#47. The biggest difference for me is that the tales really have no logical outlet, no particular infrastructure in which to present them as you would have with a film festival. There's no IMDb for audio dramas. So there's a lot of work with no particular reward.
Larry Fessenden
#48. It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.
John Barrowman
#49. Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.
Julie Walters
#50. I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about it. But I feel much more comfortable doing a comedy, but the fact that I got to try a few dramas, I feel I've tested myself a little bit.
Adam Sandler
#51. I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
Ben Stiller
#52. I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.
Elizabeth Banks
#53. That below the main stage were unknown others on which different dramas played out, secretly affecting the lives of everyone upstairs? She
Dean Koontz
#54. I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns.
Terry Teachout
#55. There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
Josh Trank
#56. I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants to play those dark roles and it's definitely true for me and I'd love to kind of challenge myself in any way possible.
Nathalie Emmanuel
#57. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.
Cherie Lunghi
#58. Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.
Amy Acker
#59. Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. Mind-pictures brought feelings, and feelings dragged out dramas from the hollows of the heart.
Zora Neale Hurston
#61. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
J.G. Ballard
#63. I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
Jodi Picoult
#64. I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don't want to write setup, punch, setup, punch, where the joke dictates the scene; I want to find comedy in which the drama is actually driving the moment in the scene.
Rob Thomas
#65. God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
Honore De Balzac
#66. People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!'
Alison Owen
#67. Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.
Rob Lowe
#68. Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
Gary Krist
#70. You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.
Michael J. Fox
#71. A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.
Billy Bob Thornton
#72. I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.
Mireille Enos
#73. I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!
Tyler Perry
#74. A beautiful sidenote is, once the toxins and dramas are removed, you purify your life. Simplify and purify. What better way to live your life? Simple and pure!
Tony Curl
#75. I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
Rafe Spall
#76. True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
#77. This is likely because you're so consumed by your own dramas, anxieties, distractions, insecurities, and duties that you aren't receptive to inspiration.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#78. As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
Felicity Kendal
#79. Scarlet and Wolf are saying gushy things in the galley," Iko said. "Normally I like gushy things, but its different when its real people. I prefer the net dramas.
Marissa Meyer
#80. I'm a big fan of comedies and dramas, and I watch tons of movies.
Clive Owen
#81. People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality.
Shelley Conn
#82. A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore De Balzac
#83. I hate wars and revoloutions and these dramas of redemptive violence that turn upon themselves like endlessly long screws and haul entire generations through the same murderous absurdities, apparently without ERROR signals going off in anybody's head.
Yasmina Khadra
#84. Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
Upton Sinclair
#85. I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
Eva Longoria
#87. A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
Tom Hooper
#88. You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.
Gillian Jacobs
#89. In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.
David Yates
#90. I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.
Robin McLeavy
#91. I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.
Ethan Hawke
#92. I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.
Peter Gallagher
#93. The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that.
Robin Williams
#94. The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm writing it I struggle more with drama because I started out in comedy.
Woody Allen
#95. I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.
Leslie Mann
#96. That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#97. I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.
Chris Albrecht
#98. You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.
Paul Guilfoyle
#99. I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
Tamsin Egerton
#100. Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.
Ralph Marston
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