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“I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.”

People Sides Dark Drama Overcoming Desperate Heroic

Author:Jodie Foster

“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.”

Children Play Mother Values Asks Nations Roles Building Duty Integrity Drama Equal Commitment India Constitution Complexes Loyalty Nation Building

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.”

Wells Dark Comedy Drama Julia

Author:Jodie Foster

“As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.”

Persons Light Drama Dramatic

Author:Jodie Foster

“Well, I was a drama kid.”

Wells Kids Drama

Author:Dean Norris

“I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.”

Wanted Tvs Drama

Author:Chris Noth

“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.”

School Teacher Drama High School Theater

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.”

Years School Gone Drama Forgotten London Auditions

Author:Julia Ormond

“Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.”

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Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.”

School Drama Paid Dues London Theatre

Author:Richard O'Brien

“I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.”

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Author:Evan Peters

“With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you're not an actor or some crazy artist, you don't feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it's painful.”

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Author:Josh Peck

“It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.”

Shows Home Wonder Comedy Television Drama My Friends Died Painful Pilots Back Home Television Shows Painful Death

Author:Eric Ladin

“I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.”

Knows Done Facts School Remember Company Saws Happened Drama Performances Cheeks You Like It

Author:David Oyelowo

“One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.”

Doe Periods Drama

Author:David Oyelowo

“I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.”

Mean Roles Drama Conflict Dirty Inner Conflict Devilish

Author:Amanda Plummer

“I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.”

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Author:Michael Pena

“I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.”

Play School Drama High School Performing Department

Author:Missi Pyle

“I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.”

Thinking Want Important Character Stories Shows Care Week Balance Drama Horror Important Things Compelling Tricky Great Character

Author:Oren Peli

“I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.”

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Author:Busy Philipps

“I am excited to be doing 'SVU' - I think there's a lot of inherent drama and a lot of inherent conflict in procedural shows. I have a lot of respect for police officers and the work that they do. There's a lot of nobility to depicting what these officers do on a day to day basis.”

Thinking Shows Drama Conflict Bases Police Excited Officers Inherent Day To Day Nobility Police Officer

Author:Danny Pino

“There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“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.”

Film Drama Horror Scared Documentaries Horror Film

Author:Todd Phillips

“As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.”

Writing Novel Drama Temptation No Drama

Author:Tom Perrotta

“My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.”

Knows Children Play America Parent Cities Particular Drama Setting Versions Settings Farms Children And Parents

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.”

Reason Fun Sound Drama Costumes

Author:Amy Ryan

“I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.”

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Author:Michael Rooker

“I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.”

Want Hands Guy Girl Drama Metals

Author:Michael J. Fox

“So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.”

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Author:Bill Rancic

“People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.”

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Author:Geoffrey Rush

“You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.”

Kind Different Character School Careers Drama All Kinds Range Different Characters

Author:Lance Reddick

“When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.”

Want Watches Drama British Relax Couches

Author:Cobie Smulders

“I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.”

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Author:Octavia Spencer

“I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.”

Want Littles Play Guy Dark Comedy Crazy Drama Not Interested Looking Good Thrillers Sidekicks Good Looking Guys

Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.”

Shows Certain Comedy Style Drama Rhythm Pace

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“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.”

People Actors Roles Comedy Drama Expectations Comic Upset

Author:Ben Stiller

“Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.”

Thinking Needs Should Kind Certain Drama Jazz Tension Smooth Jazz Music Cornerstones Improvising Smooth Jazz

Author:David Sanborn

“Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your inner peace has nothing to do with your dramas of your life.”

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Author:Susan Jeffers

“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.”

Guy Love Is Drama Funny Guy

Author:John Leguizamo

“I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.”

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Author:Geoff Stults

“I'd love to do a drama.”

Drama

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.”

Ends Country States Political Social Challenges Economic Drama Unions Historical Profound Financial Russia Ruins Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.”

People Ifs Made Real Kids Grows Stuff Rooms Focus Couple Drama Commitment

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.”

Thinking School Drama Hype

Author:Eleanor Tomlinson

“First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song "Mama Says".”

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Author:Miles Teller

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