Quotes About Drama

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

My husband and I don't want Hollywood drama. I go to the market and do the dishes. I'm not treated differently because I work on TV.

People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

I'm a fan of James Frain's work, especially in 'True Blood.' He was so awesome in that show.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama. I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.