“I haven't always wanted to be an actor, no. I wasn't one of the little kids that was desperate to be an actor. I did a lot of drama and a lot of music, but it was just something for fun on the side. I was quite shy as a kid and I found a lot of freedom in performing. I never knew you could do it as a job.” LittlesKidsWantedJobsActorsFoundFunSidesHavensDramaPerformingDesperateShyLittle Kid Author:Gemma Chan
“I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.” SchoolFilmFoundDramaUselessSuspectsFilm School Book:On directing film Source: On directing film
“I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.” FoundComedySadnessDramaOrdinaryTragedyDefinitionsPrecise Author:Frederick Wiseman
“Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.” StillsPlayFoundGamesPerfectMagicDramaBaseballDimensionsHockeyMomentary Author:Roy MacGregor
“For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.” WayMomentsFeelingsFoundFeltComedyDramaCreatingLaughterUncomfortableOutcomesThat MomentUncertain Author:Romany Malco
“I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.” FeelsFirstsKindSchoolFoundStageDramaVocation Author:Diane Kruger
“I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.” KindDifferentGuyFoundGrowing UpGrowingFitDramaDifferent KindsGeekSeattleMisfits Author:Rainn Wilson
“Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.” PeopleCareYoungFoundYouthStudentsCollegeMaterialsDramaExcuseBoredomBrutalAvoidedCollege Students Book:BONOUR TRISTESSE Source: BONOUR TRISTESSE
“Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS." I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy.” LongWantedFoundEnergyToo MuchDramaLackingRidiculeBrosLong Day Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“When I first met you, you were just an annoying novice nurse. But I found out that you saved my life and now you're my little sister. Isn't it funny.” FirstsLittlesFoundDramaMetsSavedAnnoyingNurseLittle SisterNovices Author:Kim Young-kwang
“Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and co-patriots found themselves outside Russian territory.” ShouldFoundNationsMillionsCenturyCitizensDramaMajorsUnionsDisasterRussiaGenuineAcknowledgeTerritorySovietCollapsePatriotSoviet UnionEpidemicsDisintegrationGeopolitical Author:Vladimir Putin
“The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.” LoveFormPurposeFoundSexToo MuchMagicDramaRainSurpriseShoesSmellPocketsExcessHollowGlareAllureTangerines Book:Honey, Baby, Sweetheart Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
“When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.” ThinkingSchoolFoundDecisionActingDramaSchool Life Author:Emily Watson