“Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away. A good night's sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work.” IfsLittlesHardNightSleepWhiteDramaQueensPushingGood FriendChasingIndicationWhalesGood NightBragGood RelationshipPushing ItAhab Author:Amy Poehler
“History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.” BookNightHistoryDramaOne DayEternalClimateExtrasDividedRomeChaptersContinuityDay And Night Book:A Time In Rome Source: A Time In Rome
“There was a stately drama writ By the hand that peopled the earth and air, And set the stars in the infinite, And made night gorgeous and morning fair; And all that had sense to reason knew That bloody drama must be gone through. Some sat and watched how the action veered-- Waited, profited, trembled, cheered-- We saw not clearly nor understood, But yielding ourselves to the masterhand, Each in his part as best he could, We played it through as the author planned.” MadeWarReasonHandsActionEarthNightStarsMorningGoneSawsAirDramaUnderstoodFairsInfiniteSatBloodyGorgeous Author:Alan Seeger
“I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to the other. And I worked for years in television as well. So, I like the interrelationship of it and having a good relationship with a group of artists creating something really where the sum is greater than all of our individual contributions, our parts.” YearsWellsUsedArtistNightNextIndividualComedyGreaterGroupsTelevisionGrewDramaCreatingGrew UpTheaterContributionOne NightGood RelationshipCreating Something Author:Howard Shore
“When 'Malcolm in the Middle' was over, I was looking for a drama more than a comedy...but if it was a comedy that came up, it would have to be as well-written as 'Malcolm' was, and it would have to be a different kind of character than I played on that show. That's harder to come by. In drama, there were more opportunities, more options for me, and when I read ('Breaking Bad'), it was just, 'Good night, Nurse! I'm going after this sucker!'” IfsWellsKindDifferentCharacterShowsNightOpportunityComedyWrittenMiddleDramaHarderNurseDifferent KindsSuckerGood NightWell Written Author:Bryan Cranston
“There's certain things like scripted dramas that - they're either topical or such water-cooler moments that I think that they'll be consumed within 48 hours. You don't have to consume them at 9:00 at night, but you want to consume them within the first couple of days so that you can talk to your friends about it.” ThinkingWantFirstsMomentsNightCertainWaterHoursCoupleDramaConsumed48 Hours Author:Jason Kilar
“There's always something every night that I learn from reacting to what the audience is reacting to. You learn what to leave out, what to put in, if you need a little more comedy or more drama.” IfsNeedsLittlesNightAudienceComedyDramaEvery NightReacting Author:Tony Bennett
“It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.” ThinkingWayFilmNightAudienceFashionDramaStorytellingFlashToesLinear Author:Rowan Atkinson
“As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.” IfsWritingBookSometimesHardMightNightFictionMysteryInfluenceDramaSellsHistoricalWesternContemporaryGenreSettlingHard TimesConsiderationHistorical FictionJournalDescribingStandpointBookstoresReviewers Author:Elizabeth Crook
“I knew I wanted to go to college and I wanted to study it acting, so I just looked for the best school that I could get into. Luckily, I had very supportive parents. I went to a conservatory that is basically drama school. You take one English class and one history class for four years but you don't take any other science or anything like that. It's strictly, from 7am until night, all acting. It's a lot. Some people find it too much, but for me I was preparing for a career and I never really looked back.” PeopleSchoolNightParentActingStudyCollegeDramaSupportive Author:Patrick Wilson
“I know how sad it is when you won't be able to realize your dream. But do you know what's great about dreams? You can always have a different dream. Just like the way you dream every night in your sleep, you can just dream another dream. You're not throwing your dream away, but having a different dream.” KnowsWayLoveDifferentDreamAbleNightRealizingSleepKnow HowDramaYour DreamsDo You KnowThrowingEvery Night Author:Kim Du-han
“I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesHumorFunnyNightDramaCriticismCriticsTheatreClever Author:Noel Coward
“Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.” ArtNightActorsNatureAudienceDramaSeasonsEntertainmentTheatreCompareCinemaDramaticRitualContrastEvery NightTransport Book:Selected Essays of John Berger Source: Selected Essays of John Berger