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Quotes About Drama

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.
~ Peter Morgan
I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.
~ Maura Tierney
So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
~ James Earl Jones
I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.
~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
~ Takeshi Kitano
Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
~ Zach McGowan
I love doing scenes with two actors in an elevator, but sometimes I'm a little boy, and I like swinging a sword with 800 soldiers around.
~ Michiel Huisman
What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
~ Tansy Rayner Roberts
When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.
~ Cate Blanchett
It was a symbolic moment when 'Moonlight' literally took the Oscar out of 'La La Land's' hand.
~ Lena Waithe
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
~ George Pierce Baker
I had watched them trade best friends, start wars, cry, trade back, make treaties, squeal and grab each other's arms in this fake-excited way, et cetera...
~ Rebecca Stead
Sometimes the truth is dramatic.
~ Rebecca Stead
I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.
~ Reggie Watts
Oh, the floozy. Now she's worried about her gaping neckline? Weston ignored Molly and drew Rosa's attention back to their
~ Regina Jennings
Before Thomas could say a word, before Molly could protest, Bailey leaned over the table and kissed her firmly on the lips—on the lips, in the dining room, under the crystal chandelier that swayed when she opened her eyes. "Bailey, I told you that until we're wed you're to pretend there's no agreement." "Must've forgot." He picked up his hat and strutted out the door before her shocked father could stop him.
~ Regina Jennings
guess rich folks can have some ghetto drama, too, because that was too much. But if I had to choose between rich-ghetto drama and poor-ghetto drama, I'm going with rich every time. At least I can buy some retail therapy to help me through my issues.
~ Reshonda Tate Billingsley
Jesus, Mary and Joseph," I muttered, giving those men a haughty stare.
~ Rhys Bowen
Y cuando uno resulta ser el cliché del otro, el lugar común del otro, queridos lectores, está a punto de caer y seguir cayendo. Para usar otra idea manoseada hasta sacarle brillo: cuando alguien descubre que siempre prefiere pensar y llamar y oír a una misma persona, y que ha encontrado a alguien para desempolvar las historias que había dejado de contar y que su vida ha vuelto a ser un drama, está a punto de regresar a la zona de turbulencia
~ Ricardo Silva Romero
y poco a poco me convenzo más y más de que la ficción tiende al drama porque la vida es igual: se quiere algo, vivir, por ejemplo, desesperadamente, pero se tienen muchos problemas para conseguirlo".
~ Ricardo Silva Romero
the church is to find its identity and vocation by recognizing its role within the cosmic drama of God's reconciliation of the world to himself.
~ Richard B. Hays
Through all the drama—whether damned or not—Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too? PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles, go mad when she goes mad.-Now, Madam Confidante! But keep your madness in the background, if you please.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The sergeant's account of his past was ancient in its form and confusingly dramatic, as perhaps would have been a game of three-level chess between Richard Burbage and Sacha Guitry.
~ Richard Condon