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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.
You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.
I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.
Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.
I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.
It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.
The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone.
When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts.
I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama class in high school.
I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.
I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.
I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
I've always loved absurdism and plays of that genre. I think that my humour is very much rooted in theatre and drama.
I'd actually love to do more comedy, but what I really wanna do is an indie drama - an intense indie road-trip movie.
The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.
That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.
There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.
I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.
There is a drama queen in me, as I love acting, and I used to stand in front of the mirror and act since my childhood.
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.
My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.
Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.
She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid.
When I approach villains, unless it's a drama, I'm a comedian, so I approach most things from a comedic point of view.
It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.
I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.
I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.
I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.
My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.
You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.
My dream's simple..and does whatever it pleases. I'm just moving in the direction of Seung Jo who's at the center of it.
I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless.
You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.
I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.
When I went to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne to study drama, I felt I'd finally found my place in life.