Quotes About Drama

In movies, people seem to be more emotional than they would ever be if that situation was actually happening to them.

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.

When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

I have been through and seen so many dramas and traumas and been in so many situations that I can probably interpret a few different characters.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

I wouldn't say in all situations, but a lot of times kids can be the most reasonable people around because they don't have the deal with all the drama that goes along with being an adult.

I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love situations where I've got a bit of room to improvise on the character.

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.

'Scandal' is great because it's intriguing and sexy, and it has a lot of play with secondary characters in situations, lots of drama.

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show.

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of one of the shows was picked up by a comedy sketch company... so then I had to write comedy.