Quotes About Drama

There was pie on the table when Tugs returned. Pie in the Button family meant trouble.

J'ai trop de temps pour penser à la passion, c'est mon drame. Aucune tâche venue impérativement du dehors. La liberté me porte à la passion, tellement occupante.

My first professional role was in 'Romeo and Juliet,' and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo's enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K.

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

When we were graduating from college, my dramatics professor Frank Thakurdas called me to his house and said, 'Satish, you're capable of doing a lot of things in life, but you should become a professional actor.' I told him that I am not a good-looking guy, how will I become an actor?

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile.

The reason to do any barking - well, the reason for me - is that 'Three Billboards' feels so off about so many things. It's one of those movies that really do think they're saying something profound about human nature and injustice.

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

Top Boy' isn't the type of programme that is trying to be righteous and have a happy ending, it is just real.

Back in the fifties I was the hot, young comic on CBS and a regular on 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' I was also starring in shows on Broadway and acting in dramatic programs on television. Those were the glory days of television. It was like theater. It was live. If an actor forgot a line, he improvised. There was an immediacy to it.

It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.

I've gone to prom multiple times, had fights with the principal, a relationship with my teacher. When people ask if I wish I had gone to high school, I tell them that I've acted all of that stuff out, and it just doesn't seem like fun.

Guys are awesome, but I vote for going to prom with a group of friends. It's so much less drama.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Above all, I am a theatre person, from the National School of Drama, I want to promote theatre.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

I look for a great story. One that I would like to watch, or tell, or that I think needs to be told, because I know that, as an actress, I have a responsibility to tell certain stories and to tell them properly.

The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

Wrestling is a business, it is show business and wrestling championships are props.

I get auditions for best friend, best girlfriend, a doctor who appears in one scene and tells the protagonist that he has cancer, things like that.

The conventional Aristotelian plot proceeds by means of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a series of events comprising a rising action, climax and denouement.

Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.