Drama Quotes - Page 24

• As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

  Felicity Kendal

  Play, Tvs, Reflecting

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• Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

  Stewart Brand

  Fashion, Technology, Doe

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• I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

  Lyndsy Fonseca

  Girl, Thinking, Television

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realized... just go and do it, stop being a knob.

  Claire Foy

  School, Thinking, Zombie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.

  Rachael Harris

  Fun, Thinking, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing comedies, as well as dramas.

  Rachael Harris

  Hollies, Hunters, Agents

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Girl, Pain, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

  Michel Gondry

  People, Different, Genius

  "Surreal to reel" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

  Natalie Dormer

  School, Thinking, Too Much

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• Fake is not a word I like to use because there's nothing fake about what I do.  It's a show, it's a predetermined outcome; we're putting on a television drama, action, comedy, whatever you want to call it - but it's not fake.  Fake would be if I was just about to take a body slam, and my stuntman did it.  Fake would be if I was going to take a chair shot to the head, and the chair was made of rubber.  I'll tell the world that it's a show, but I hate the word fake.  It's such an unfair term to us.

  Chris Jericho

  Hate, Fake, Would Be

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• Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up in a new quest for truth and introspection as they try to figure out whether these dramas of body and soul come from the devil or God. A stunning feat of scholarship and interpretation.

  Natalie Zemon Davis

  Men, Europe, Practice

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• I’d like to be the kind of actor who is remembered for my character. You know how there are cases where even when you watch all the way through the end of a drama, you remember the actor’s name, not the character’s. I want my character’s name to be more remembered than mine.

  Jung So-min

  Character, Names, Watches

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• Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

  Jenna Elfman

  Seems, Hard

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma.

  Sarah Sutton

  Teacher, School, Doctors

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• I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

  Phoebe Tonkin

  Oscars, Serious, Watches

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• I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

  Peter Billingsley

  Commitment, Thinking, Actors

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• The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.

  David Fincher

  Interesting, Sides, Want

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• 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.

  Alison Sweeney

  Husband, Hollywood, Want

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• The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is a process of discovery. We are looking for the meaning of life. No matter where you are, there are conflicts and dramas everywhere. It is the process of what it means to be a human being; how you react and are reacted upon, these inward and outer pressures. If you are writing with a direct cause in mind, you are writing propaganda. It's fatal for a fiction writer.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Mean, Discovery

  "Nadine Gordimer on dividing fact from fiction" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

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• My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Childhood, Magic, Mystery

  Louise Bourgeois (1998). “Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997”

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• Drama often obscures the real issues

  Jenny Holzer

  Real, Issues

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But through the effects of TV and interactive video systems and so forth, we'll also have the freedom to pretend to be a mass murderer for the evening. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer controlledthe TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

  J. G. Ballard

  Gun, Reality, Mcdonalds

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• My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

  Donald Barthelme

  Mother, Father, Wicked

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• Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Men, Habitat

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.

  Tennessee Williams

  Play, Stories, Poet

  Tennessee Williams, David Ernest Roessel (2007). “The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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