Quotes About Period Dramas

#1. I always have to get my U.K. fix, and 'Downton Abbey' is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one is particularly appealing - following the ins and outs of aristocracy as well as the interaction between the rich and the poor.

Estelle

#2. I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

Harry Lloyd

#3. Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#4. I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.

Arthur Darvill

#5. With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them.

Clive Standen

#6. I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.

Ioan Gruffudd

#7. When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.

Neil Jackson

#8. I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.

Aidan Gillen

#9. If life is going well, I watch quality things like period dramas and 'The Blue Planet.' But other times, I'll trawl through anything Freeview has to offer. I do believe TV can ruin your mind, but it can also be a really good friend.

Raquel Cassidy

#10. The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.

Hu Shih

#11. I think that period dramas just need zombies.

Lily James

#12. I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

Lauren Socha

#13. We live in a world that is so quick to lose people's attention, and to move on to the next thing. We live in a YouTube world, so it's hard to build something slow like you did fifteen or twenty years ago. You have to have the kind of show that keeps people interested.

Gary LeVox

#14. I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#15. It just didn't occur to me. But it should have. If your lungs grabbed up all the oxygen, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation wouldn't work. I'm such a dumb-ass for not thinking of it! And my dumbassery almost got me killed! I

Andy Weir

#16. I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

Emily Blunt

#18. To conform is to be average.

Manoj Vaz

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Leave that cycle at home. I like a truck bed to play around in under the moon and stars.

Carolyn Brown

#22. I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.

Keira Knightley

#23. Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

Tuppence Middleton

#24. I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.

Cary Fukunaga

#25. From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.

Andrew Davies

#26. I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.

Robin McLeavy

#27. I've done a lot of period dramas, but I love modern productions, too.

Rupert Evans

#28. I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.

Tamsin Egerton