God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
— Honore De Balzac
I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.
— Julia Sawalha
So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors aeons ago.
— Olaf Stapledon
I think that period dramas just need zombies.
— Lily James
Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.
— Walter Hill
It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.
— John Barrowman
I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.
— Bill Hader
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
— Joyce Maynard
Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.
— Tuppence Middleton
My dramas mostly involved whats-as in, What on earth is that horrible creature about to rip out my throat?
— Kiersten White
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
— Marcia Gay Harden
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
— Harry Lloyd
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.
— Norman Lock
I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.
— Clark Johnson
With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.
— Emily VanCamp
If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.
— Keeley Hawes
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
— Ethel Merman
I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.
— Bridget Moynahan
I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.
— Kevin Whately
Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.
— Gugu Mbatha-Raw
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home."Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French Kiss — Stephanie Perkins
In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.
— Mia Kirshner
I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
— Rachael Harris
I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.
— Cary Fukunaga
People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain. — James Nesbitt
You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change. — Gillian Jacobs
Our reality is the thoughts and dramas we see in our mental movies. We — Tara Brach
I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas. — Lisa Cholodenko
But since the Obsidian Order - perennial of cheap dramas and bogeymen of children's stories - had — Django Wexler
I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it. — Rachel Bilson
TV dramas function as vehicles for remodeling female subjects for the new social order - in other words, as an agent for change. — Jie Yang
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema. — Marc Webb
I'm drawn to dramas that make people think. I want to make an impact. — Stephen Graham
People feel that drama is more important. Dramas always earn more honors than comedy. — Letty Aronson
I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas. — Krzysztof Kieslowski
There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies. — Josh Trank
If we're not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas - I have no problem with 35mm. — Abbas Kiarostami
I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?' — Gael Garcia Bernal
Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have. — Rob McElhenney
I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy. — Kim Basinger
I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas. — Tobias Lindholm
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. — Michael Caine
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again. — Ted Demme
I really like action-dramas like 'The Professional' or 'La Femme Nikita.' I'd really like to be in a movie like that. — Cassie Steele
The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas. — Barry Marshall
People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. — Dan Stevens
I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything. — Lauren Socha
Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort. — Tom Shales
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak. — Tom Hooper
Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy. — Amy Acker
Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on. — Richard LaGravenese
I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters. — Gina Bellman
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor. — Ben Stiller
Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now. — Julianne Moore
There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction. — Michael Sheen
It is not so much the grand dramas of our lives that transform us as it isthe tiny one-acts we produce in between. — Gina Greenlee
I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well. — Robin McLeavy
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way. — Leslie Mann
I played comedies and dramas. — William Shatner
Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas. — Gabriel Macht
Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now. — Dan Wakefield
Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to. — Rob Lowe
If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal." -Pope Francis — Sarah Exner
I love political dramas. I love good story-telling. — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things. — Ralph Marston
I think doing dramas kind of wears on you. It's just intense. — Christine Ebersole
I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas. — Todd Phillips
I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies. — Johnny Knoxville
Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas. — Cherie Lunghi
With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them. — Clive Standen
I did nothing but dramas for seven years in New York. I didn't really start anything comedic until I moved out to L.A. and found The Groundlings. — Melissa McCarthy
As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening. — Felicity Kendal
I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors. — Bruce Forsyth
I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented. — Stephen Dorff
A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy. — Emily Blunt
I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns. — Terry Teachout
I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies, — Mike Nichols
I've done a lot of period dramas, but I love modern productions, too. — Rupert Evans
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well. — Jodie Foster
EVER NOTICE THAT ALL ONE HOUR TV DRAMAS ARE ALL SEGMENTED INTO 5 ACTS? YES, IT'S DONE FOR COMMERCIAL BREAKS, BUT THAT MAGIC NUMBER IS NO ACCIDENT. — Film Crit Hulk!
Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable. — Nathan Fielder
Mind-pictures brought feelings, and feelings dragged out dramas from the hollows of the heart. — Zora Neale Hurston
Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us. — Frank Warren
It seems to me conspiracy is at the heart of dozens of TV dramas currently on. Maybe that itself is some kind of conspiracy. — Hank Stuever
I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas. — Ethan Hawke
My principal focus is finding great dramas. — Colin Callender
The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas. — Milan Kundera
I've always loved ... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas. — Sam Raimi
