Good Drama Quotes

• I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.

  Arthur Darvill

  Drama, Dark, Thinking

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• There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

  Erika Slezak

  Drama, School, People

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• Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

  W. H. Auden

  Mother, Mistake, Drama

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• A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Drama, Criticism, Theatre

  'Tynan Right and Left' (1967) foreword

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• It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

  Jack Lemmon

  Drama, Writing, Hard Life

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

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• Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

  Jim Harrison

  Drama, Two, Different

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• Good drama must be drastic.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Drama, Theatre, Theater

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• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Memorable, Great Year

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• Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Drama, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.89, Canongate Books

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• Good drama is all about creating conflict.

  Paul Blackthorne

  Drama, Creating, Conflict

  Source: collider.com

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• I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

  Thomas Jane

  Funny Life, Drama, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

  Julian Jarrold

  Drama, Trying, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

  Shana Alexander

  Drama, Mind, Should

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• We always have the movies that are more toward real life, but they don't have that much drama or suspense, or we have the full of drama or suspense, but they're far away from real life. Always when I was watching a film, films with good drama, I was thinking, "I wish they were more close to real life." But when I was watching real life films I was thinking, "Well I wish it had more drama." I've tried, in the movies that I worked so far, to get these two things closer and closer to each other.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Drama, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Drama, Challenges, Schedules

  "Daytime TV viewers deserve decent drama too, says Sanjeev Bhaskar". Interview with Tara Conlan, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2013.

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• Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up to are also very funny.

  Adam Brody

  Drama, Thinking, Looks

  "Adam Brody's Lack Of Pretense". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just good drama. I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. I was in love with The English Patient, and movies that are very romantic in nature and have a positive message. That's a large part of my fingerprint.

  J.H. Wyman

  Drama, Blade Runner, Messages

  Source: collider.com

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• The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

  Stephen Moyer

  Drama, Position Of Power, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Drama, Boredom, Want

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• I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

  Jay Baruchel

  Sports, Drama, Reading

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

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• I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

  Tom Baker

  Drama, Novelty

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

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• I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

  Matt Damon

  Drama, School, Play

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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