Quotes About Drama

I'm not interested in putting naturalism on stage - I want passion.

I'm not interested in political theater.

When I was 16, my friends were in a drama group, and they asked me to join. I said no, I'm not interested, that it's not really for me.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

I do think 'The Notebook' is a darn good movie.

I can't imagine not playing Wynonna, because I get to play so many different things. In any given episode, I get drama and comedy and horror and all the notes of life, and very few shows or movies give you that opportunity.

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!

If you'll notice, we don't have any real out and out jokes on 'Hogan.' Basically the program is drama.

When I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, the drama teacher at my deaf school noticed that I liked to tell stories and had really good expression. I could entertain people with my stories.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.

Television, nowadays, is like doing really long films.

Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.

It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

I was educated at a convent in Kent. It was run by Irish and French nuns. I mostly hated it but they did allow me to follow my passion for drama, writing plays, performing, and directing my works.

'The Knick' is set in New York during the 1990s, and it takes place around a hospital called The Knickerbocker. It's about a team of surgeons and nurses who are on the cutting edge of medicine.

Drama school was a lifeline for me, it saved me. I found it very nurturing - I just clung on.

I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.

It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.