“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.” KnowsWantGivingWellsKindIdeasOrderChanceAnswersComedyTelevisionDramaGive MeSeriesNo Idea Author:Michael J. Fox
“There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.” WantActorsSidesChanceComedyDramaVicesCoinsVice Versa Author:Matthew Lillard
“Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.” GivingHandsChanceDrama Book:Ingrid Bergman, my story Source: Ingrid Bergman, my story
“Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!” WorldNeedsGivingSportsLosesChanceHalfCareersWonderfulDramaHundredShoesChampionRepeatsInterviewsDestroyingFifteenLapGraciousWorld ChampionsJenny Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to know Shakespeare and got a chance to play great parts in Shakespeare, because it really teaches you - or taught me, anyway - everything.” ThinkingKnowsPlayBigsSchoolChanceTeachTaughtDramaGladMy Time Author:Andre Holland
“I would love to do comedies and I would love to do dramas. I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.” ArtChoicesChanceActingComedyDramaPassionateDrawingArt Music Author:Berenice Marlohe
“I really enjoy comedy, but I also still really enjoy the drama aspect. So, I don't like to narrow my possible chances out there.” StillsEnjoyChanceComedyDramaAspect Author:Erica Durance
“On a radio drama I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non white.” FeelsI CanDifficultSoundImaginationChanceWhiteDramaRadioProducersBecause I CanEmployingDarcy Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar
“If it's a low-brow bawdy comedy, it's got to stand the chance of succeeding as such. If it's an intellectual piece, a drama, and so forth. And of course, once you've determined the level of the piece, do it the best you know how. And then don't make concessions. To audiences, or to pursestrings, or whatever.” IfsKnowsCoursesChanceLevelsAudienceKnow HowComedyPiecesDramaSucceedIntellectualLowsDeterminedBrowsConcessions Author:John Hurt
“The chance to tell personal, language-specific, culturally specific stories is really flourishing on TV and I think it's just the nature of movies and international demands that you need to get a much bigger audience. TV is more like independent film was. The forms of adult drama and certain kinds of sophisticated comedy, there's no room for them in the tentpole movie universe.” ThinkingKindFilmUniverseChanceAudienceComedyDramaIndependentSophisticated Author:Matthew Weiner
“I'm really into sci-fi. The reason I'm an actor is because of Star Wars - I saw that and I knew that's what I wanted to do. But most of the projects I'm offered as an actor are straightforward dramas, so I haven't really been given a chance to do that kind of role.” KindWarReasonWantedActorsGivenStarsChanceRolesSawsHavensDramaProjectsSci FiStraightforwardGiven A Chance Author:Ricky Schroder
“You only get one chance at life, not two! Don't joke around with your own life.” TwoChanceDramaJokesOne Chance Author:Dohee