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Quotes About Drama

I'm from the theater, darling. I want to know what happens at the end.
~ Ruth Wilson
My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.
~ Skylar Astin
The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.
~ Stephen Moyer
I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.
~ Steve Carell
Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.
~ Thomas Sadoski
I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.
~ Zooey Deschanel
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
~ Henry James
Everybody wants a sensational story.
~ Hilarie Burton
I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.
~ Jack Black
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.
~ Jaime Winstone
Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start?
~ Jennifer Crusie
Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.
~ Joel Gretsch
When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.
~ Kevin Costner
Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.
~ Matt Walsh
There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.
~ Matthew Lillard
The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.
~ Melissa Rosenberg
I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!
~ Michael Easton
"Red Dawn" was a movie made in 1984 I think about World War III. If you have not seen it and plan on watching it, you want to close your eye and cover your ears but not really. You can figure it out.
~ Rachel Maddow
The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.
~ Kenneth Kaunda
In fact, Duncan wouldn't be the least bit surprised to hear his brother say something like, "Hand over the bimbo before someone gets hurt.
~ Susan Donovan
The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop it, Kristy! You're overreacting! Let's talk about this." That was when she did the unthinkable. She rolled down the window, thrust out her hand, and gave Reverend Ethan Bonner the bird.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. "I hope you choke on every penny." "Pick that up." She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
She shot across the rug, flung the door back open, and yelled into the parking lot. "I hope you choke on your blood vegetables!
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips