Dramas Quotes

I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things. — Frank Oz

The adventure of awakening is among the most universal of human dramas. — Ken Wilber

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

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way. — Mark Rothko

I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me. — Bill Hader

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas. — Alex Trebek

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

So that's how we go on acting dramas in our theater of the mind even when we don't believe anymore in the audience or the director or the play. — Anne Rice

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

Heroines in dramas, Bridget felt, really ought to have more sense. — Jim Butcher

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

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.' — Peter Weir

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

I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine. — Ali MacGraw

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

I'm a big fan of comedies and dramas, and I watch tons of movies. — Clive Owen

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 is
the 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