Top 100 Quotes About Good Drama
#1. I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.
Ed O'Neill
#3. The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
James Gray
#4. Americans don't want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.
Paddy Chayefsky
#5. Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
David Eagleman
#6. Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.
Phillip C. McGraw
#8. I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.
Jay Baruchel
#9. There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.
Erika Slezak
#10. Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
Ira Sachs
#11. Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
Jim Harrison
#12. I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.
Tom Baker
#13. Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#14. 'Shameless' is going to shake up television. Any drama is good drama. Bring it.
Justin Chatwin
#15. I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.
Brian K. Vaughan
#17. It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Jack Lemmon
#18. The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.
Stephen Moyer
#19. I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.
Arthur Darvill
#20. In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.
Alison Owen
#21. If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.
Julian Jarrold
#22. A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Kenneth Tynan
#23. I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.
Matt Damon
#24. Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.
John McWhorter
#25. Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.
MORIARTY
#26. The good news is that we don't last. Thank heavens! Because to continue the drama of who you are, is boring, ultimately. The universe is our friend because it kills us - and that's what friends are for.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
Gore Vidal
#28. One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.
Glenn Howerton
#29. And on that note," Nate smiled at them, "I'm leaving. I think I've got everything I need from you two. Good luck with all your relationship drama. Glad to see you kids are finally working things out. And by 'working things out', I mean bickering like an old divorced couple. So fun.
Chelsea Fine
#30. I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of ... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.
William Sadler
#31. World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
Ken Follett
#32. I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?
Ice Cube
#33. But it feels good just getting it out - letting someone else know how much hatred I'm harboring.
Colleen Hoover
#34. What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
#35. We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
Laura Innes
#36. Most people will change, weather it's for the good or bad
Kim A-joong
#37. Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.
Diane Kruger
#38. But enough of the drama.
Winter has turned to spring.
And I am feeling good.
Keshni Kashyap
#39. Losing a family member, and her dying knowing she didn't have to die, that ... is a scar that will last forever for the people remaining, and even with good actions and good words, that scar will never disappear. Ever.
Kim Du-han
#40. If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as a string of unrelated events, then the question doesn't come up.
Missy Mazzoli
#41. The problem is these days people don't watch television together. The husband is downstairs watching The Game and the wife is upstairs watching The Good Wife. They don't need a show they can watch together. What family dramas are on now that are working?
Warren Leight
#42. When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.
Jaime Camil
#43. About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.
Deborah Mailman
#44. I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories.
Kim Wayans
#45. Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.
Bruce Dickinson
#46. Good does not attract evil but the opposite, it fights to shine light on darkness.
Tori Kinsey
#47. Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama ... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.
Andrea Anders
#48. I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.
Ben Schnetzer
#49. People don't want drama 365 days a year. I'm a sense of relief; it's my job to take your mind off what's bad for that brief second you're in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I'm doing.
Kevin Hart
#50. I love action shows. I love drama. There's no one type of thing. Television has gotten so good, and there's so much to do.
Bridget Regan
#51. 'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.
Michael Douglas
#52. Drama, she'd learned, was like good punctuation: it underscored your point.
Kristin Hannah
#53. Don't cry, you will have good memories from now on.
Yoochun
#54. The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.
Lynne Reid Banks
#55. They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!
George Takei
#56. Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.
Maggie Young
#57. No one said parenting was easy,but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard.
Gillian Duce
#58. No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
Stella Adler
#59. The mix of soft-focus glamour,Mills and Boon romance and the inevitable feel-good ending is here, but what marks these films is an authentic core.Genuine, unaffected moments, long absent from 70mm movie content, are back.
Anupama Chopra
#60. This is why I spent so long fighting my feelings for you. You don't belong in my world. You're too good for it. For me. I thought I was ready to be who you needed me to be, but I fell at the first hurdle.
Siobhan Davis
#61. ... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.
Thomas Sweeney
#62. It is always hard to leave a home a drama a way of life a life. So I sat there warm and safe that night held by the sea and a good man and my own good fortune victim and witness to all the transitory sweetness like Gatsby's dreams that stood before and behind me.
Gail Caldwell
#63. 'The Good Wife' has actually been something, ironically, that I've watched since episode one, season one in the U.K. because it came up when I was in drama school. I always watched it. It was kind of like an actor's show.
Cush Jumbo
#64. Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a bit, ennobling us with the proper drama and tension and pathos.
Jonathan Hull
#65. You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.
Bruce Campbell
#66. As people, my parents,were very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.
David O. Russell
#67. You told me that it would be better to find family among people who were good than to try and find good among my family.
Rich Burlew
#68. What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.
Jane Green
#69. An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Desi Arnaz
#70. I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.
Merritt Wever
#71. My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.
Will Packer
#72. Chorus of women: [ ... ] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.
Aristophanes
#73. Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.
Mal Peet
#74. But family connections are weird. Even if your relatives aren't good to you, they're still your blood. You can't lose that connection completely. And believe me, I've got a few relatives on my dad's side I'd love to lose.
Rick Riordan
#75. I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.'
Glen Mazzara
#76. Transparent is a drama/comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories. It's that good.
David Bianculli
#77. A good author can pull you into their world, a great author can make you stay.
Tauicita Jones
#78. Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.
Steve Albini
#80. The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.
Donald Miller
#81. But it still feels like it's a reach for me. I am more comfortable doing a drama. I feel like I know what I'm doing a bit better there. But it's good to be scared.
Kate Beckinsale
#82. If John Grisham, Harper Lee, and Larry the Cable Guy were penned up in a remote cabin for a weekend with nothing but good bourbon, fine wine, and a couple of cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, something like Common Pleas (A Tale of Whoa!) might result...
J. Randolph Cresenzo
#83. A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.
Rebecca West
#84. ...God is already out there in the world ahead of us. In our teaching, therefore, we must do more than merely help people learn how to be good church members. We are directors preparing people for roles in a drama that encompasses every part of their lives.
Richard Robert Osmer
#85. I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.
Gus Van Sant
#86. A life without a storm would lack drama. Pounding waves of a tempestuous sea test a person's mettle. A fearless sailor climbs the rigging and shouts out at the top of their lungs into the wind and rain whipping across their face that they will not go quietly into the good night without a fight.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#87. I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.
Matt Walsh
#88. A wise man is detached from the drama of the material world because he focuses instead on the source from which all dualities of light and darkness, good and evil, pleasure and pain actually originate.
Deepak Chopra
#89. There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre ... plus a dragon.
Patrick Rothfuss
#90. There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#91. 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
#92. Don't forget the chocolate fudge frosting!"
"Gotcha," Dad shouted back.
"Good to know, even after a family drama, Gwen's still hard at work on that great ass," Gus noted.
Kristen Ashley
#93. There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture ... It's palpable.
William Shatner
#94. I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as depressing as it sounds.
Kaya Scodelario
#95. I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I was happiest at lunchtime, playing with my friends. But I love science now, that's the funny thing. And I'd be so good at geography, as I've been fortunate enough to travel the world.
Peter Andre
#96. Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
Robert Frost
#97. Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#98. The Berglunds were the super-guilty sort of liberals who needed to forgive everybody so their own good fortune could be forgiven; who lack the courage of their privilege
Jonathan Franzen
#99. Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.
Martin Henderson
#100. I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.
Peter Billingsley
