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“I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.”

Ifs Knows Want Actors Acting Doubt Comedy Dramatic

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.”

People Thinking I Can Actors Can Do Curious Dramatic

Author:Ben Stiller

“The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.”

Giving Writing Long Play Actors Chance Pieces Long Time Give Me Comic Dramatic Facets

Author:Linda Lavin

“It's weird how an actor can read a script and think 'it's really good, it's really funny, that's going to be really dramatic...' and then you get there and say: "Oh, I have to get in it? I have to get in the water?! Are you kidding?"”

Thinking Actors Water Scripts Dramatic

Author:Jamie Bell

“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.”

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Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.”

Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry

“There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think I can try to follow anyone.”

Thinking Giving Trying I Can Actors Careers Dramatic

Author:Channing Tatum

“I should say, a piece of advice that was given to me very early on by the principle of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) which is where I went. When he auditioned me, he said, "Your speech, monologue, is fine. It's good. Yeah, I think you have ability but you're making it happen. Don't make it happen, let it happen." And that's a sort of subtle shift I think, as an actor.”

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Author:Ralph Fiennes

“As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.”

Shows Actors Opportunity Sides Talent Dramatic Irresistible

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.”

Years Has Beens Character Inspiration Able Turns Actors Loses Dramatic

Author:Adhir Kalyan

“I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.”

Actors Stuff Excited Dramatic

Author:Spencer Boldman

“Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.”

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Author:Brian Greene

“My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.”

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Author:Jonah Hill

“I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.”

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Author:Charles Grodin

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

Has Beens Made Moving Actors Stage Drama Screens Dramatic Sitcom

Author:Jasika Nicole