Quotes About Drama

I feel like when you perform in a period drama, it's so easy to transform yourself into someone else because the costumes are so different.

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

I think casting is everything. You get a great cast and - certainly, as happens in 'The Hour' - so many of those performances on the page were transformed by those actors who took those parts and made it into something completely different.

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

Why would any one make a biopic on me? I would have lived my life a certain way, had I known that a biopic will be made on it in future. I agree, every person's life has enough drama to be translated into a movie but I can't say the same about myself.

Actors don't have to be linked in real life for the chemistry to be translated on screen.

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

To me, 'Transparent' is one of the best family dramas since 'The Sopranos.'

What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.

Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene." "Well, I'm gonna make a movie if you don't show me some respect.

So many writers fight an uphill battle trying to interest their readers in matters that have no inherent conflict.

The secret of creating conflict in scenes you write is to give your characters different scripts.

Suspense builds when the reader wants something to happen and it isn't happening yet. Or something is happening and the reader wants it to stop, now. And it doesn't.

A good script is important to the success of a project and how it makes it easier to get into a particular role.

John McCrodden's anger, Poirot thought, was equal to Sylvia Rule's but different: less explosive, more enduring. He would not forget, whereas she might if a new and more pressing drama occurred.

Once while we were watching the denouement scene of a David Suchet Poirot episode, he [my husband] said irritably, 'Why do they all just sit there and let Poirot accuse them of stuff? I'd get up and walk out.

Athens, nurse of men.

The sound of the click, then the sound of Victoria's scream, then the sound of Victoria falling sideways to the floor.

In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result ... to inform or to confuse? How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability.

Of these plays, the most inoffensive are comedies and tragedies, that is to say, the dramas which poets write for the stage, and which, though they often handle impure subjects, yet do so without the filthiness of language which characterizes many other performances; and it is these dramas which boys are obliged by their seniors to read and learn as a part of what is called a liberal and gentlemanly education.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

Tales momentos dramáticamente concentrados, tales momentos preñados de fatalidad, en los que una decisión destinada a persistir a lo largo de los tiempos se comprime en una única fecha, en una única hora y a menudo en un solo minuto, son raros tanto en la vida del individuo como en el curso de la Historia.

En esta batalla, el fantástico juego de artificios que fue la existencia de Napoleón se dispara fastuosamente hacia los cielos para luego precipitarse de nuevo hacia la tierra y apagarse para siempre.