Quotes About Drama

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

That first episode of 'Newsroom,' the way it just cooked, I thought it was really good.

As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge in that?

I want to just be able to act and be like the girl next door or the cute babysitter or the busy mom who's fun or who knows, maybe something super dramatic, somebody who's really insecure and angry.

Nick Lea is a great actor, and doing scenes with him was always awesome.

'Friday Night Lights' was an incredible show.

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

It's Megan Rapinoe, If there's no drama, there's no fun.

In all my movies, there's always a kind of heartfelt element, to be able to do a drama and to be able to spend more time in the emotional stuff with no pressure to get back to the funny that's very liberating for me.

I have no problem with television as a genre.

Deaner ran down to the barrier separating the crowd from the pitch, and eventually persuaded the stewards that he had a part to play in the unfolding drama. (Anyone who has ever attempted to talk to a steward at a Premiership football ground will recognize that, whatever else during the afternoon required divine intervention, Deaner's success in getting on to the White Hart Lane turf really was a miracle.)

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Sophie was beginning to realize that there was nothing to be done about actors: they would always end up sleeping with each other. They had always done so, and they probably always would.

When your lover visits to discuss the illegitimate child you kept a secret from him, offer him a glass of wine… The one that most definitely not been in the dowager duchess's handbook.

thespian, since Kev's into that.

Hayley could see trees whipping in the wind and the bruised fists of clouds that smothered the sky.

The most villainous move any person can make is tying a woman to the railroad tracks.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

We love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit that.

We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one. None of that is bad. It's just the way human beings operate.