As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

I just love drama. I love the idea of exploring relationships, whatever they may be. That's fun for me.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

If everyone spent as much time o happiness as they did on drama and anger, they'd shine a lot brighter!

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

I sort of knew I was a bit of a drama queen. I always threw tantrums, so I knew I wasn't a normal child.

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

I did some things to some people that was downright evil. Is it karma coming back to me - so much drama.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

I joined an amateur drama group as a teenager, fell in love with theatre, and it totally changed my life.

I grew up in Oldham and moved to Manchester and London. I didn't go to drama school. I just did a B-Tech.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once...twice...sold to the drama queen at the corner.

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

Since 'Mononoke' has such a dramatic story, I played up the drama, emphasizing the power of a magnum opus.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

'Rear Window' isn't really a horror film, but it is a psychological drama, which I love. It is very tense.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

If I were to do a drama again, I would really like to work on a fatal melodrama, like a love that can't be.

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama. I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real.

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