Quotes About Drama

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

There's a playwright named S.M. Berryman, Sam Berryman, who wrote these kinds of social comedies. They are actually extremely sharp and still quite provocative.

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.

I wanted to direct a film that can showcase my son's acting prowess.

Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare's dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries ago loom large in every student's psyche, quite effortlessly.

I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.

I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.

On television, I love 'The Crown,' and 'The Affair' is so psychological.

My father offered me a Super8 camera that he bought in some Brazilian airport. I was 16, and shot a reel with my best friend Juan Solanas jumping from the Pont Neuf bridge. It was my first psychological drama.

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.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

With 'Before We Die,' the psychology of the characters and their relationships with one another was key.

I'd had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.

Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.

We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

I understand you always want drama leading up to the fight. You want whatever publicity you can get for it. It's more appealing for fans, for media for everything.

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on 'Game of Thrones.' I mean, it's just as good as it gets.

'Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.

At every point in 'Broadchurch' you're continually told and pulled back into the emotional cost.