“Well, the most important thing in choreographing for a specific tune is to get the story line and try to make your movements, rather than just actual movements, let them become more or less a physical drama to, to what they were singing about. And uh, also, uh, honor the beat and the rhythmic pattern of the musical track.” TryingWellsImportantStoriesLinesMovementHonorDramaBeatsSingingImportant ThingsMusicalPatternsTrackTunes Author:Cholly Atkins
“I get them [auditions] from time to time, and I sometimes get auditions for big dramas, and I often think, well, I'm not going to get that part. This was a big surprise - it was The X-Files.” ThinkingWellsSometimesBigsDramaSurpriseAuditionsFilesX FilesBig Surprises Author:Rhys Darby
“I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.” WellsSaidStillsCryDramaDiedReviews Author:Jason Gann
“Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could very well be true. I would throw out that teens and tweens are just absolutely fabulous and the most interesting people on the planet. And it is a time of high drama, and everything matters.” PeopleWritingWellsMatterMy OwnInterestingStagePlanetsDevelopmentDramaStuckBeing TrueTeensFabulousMost InterestingTweensAbsolutely Fabulous Author:Lauren Myracle
“I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.” IfsFirstsWellsKindEnoughTogetherFilmPrinciplesComedyDramaIf I CouldCharlieWoodyStand Up ComedyChaplin Author:Mike Birbiglia
“I had a fantastic teacher in high school. I had one of those guys you dream of having, who molds your life and inspires you to go in a particular direction, and he was quite brilliant. His name was Cecil Pickett, and a lot of the kids from my high-school drama class are in professional show business and have done quite well.” WellsDoneShowsDreamKidsSchoolGuyNamesClassTeacherInspireParticularDramaHigh SchoolBrilliantFantasticShow BusinessMoldDrama Class Author:Brent Spiner
“For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things, trying to cross different genres, and dipping my toes into comedy and drama and action here and there. Fortunately, as I've been working, the industry has also changed where you're able to dip your toes into different mediums, where it's not just independent film and studio film, but now you've got TV, and you're able to do all these different things. For me, it's just a matter of continually pushing myself and challenging myself.” TryingWellsImportantDifferentMatterAbleActionFilmChallengesComedyChangedTvsIndustryDramaCrossesIndependentStudiosMediumsGenreDifferent ThingsPushingToesHere And ThereHindsightIndependent FilmDipDifferent GenresChallenging Myself Author:Michelle Monaghan
“I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit in, and raise it to another level if I can. And this [Code Black ] has been another one of those really fun success stories, much like Parks And Recreation, although obviously on the other side of the comedy/drama equation.” IfsWayWellsKindHas BeensI CanStoriesFunSidesBlackLevelsComedyPrideFitDramaFindingsMachinesRaisesCodeParksEquationsRecreationSuccess StoriesParks And RecreationWell Oiled Machines Author:Rob Lowe
“I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.” TryingWellsStoriesMightFilmActorsOpportunityActingDramaSceneDemandLetting GoScriptsTone Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“I've always enjoyed family movies anyway. And I grew up loving actors who could hop around and play in something very family friendly, big, playful - and then go and do drama and comedy as well.” WellsPlayBigsActorsComedyGrewDramaGrew UpEnjoyedHopsFriendlyFamily Friends Author:Dan Stevens
“We always have the movies that are more toward real life, but they don't have that much drama or suspense, or we have the full of drama or suspense, but they're far away from real life. Always when I was watching a film, films with good drama, I was thinking, "I wish they were more close to real life." But when I was watching real life films I was thinking, "Well I wish it had more drama." I've tried, in the movies that I worked so far, to get these two things closer and closer to each other.” ThinkingWellsTwoRealFilmWishDramaReal LifeSuspenseTwo ThingsFar AwayGood Drama Author:Asghar Farhadi
“The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.” WorldWellsArtShowsMightArtistDramaFameHighestDignityWideEnvyGradesPhasesGiftedMonkeysShow BusinessExhibitions Author:P. T. Barnum
“'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.” WorldWellsLongCharacterHelpingStoriesActionStarsSecurityAdventureDramaConceptsBuiltTrainMissionsDefinedRangePerformingExplorationTransportationFormatWagonsYorktown Author:Gene Roddenberry
“To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.” WellsViewsClearMediaObjectsDramaPureIntellectualDemocraticFinishedInwardDisguiseMasterpieceDetachmentMonstrousWill PowerThoroughFlatteredEnslavementArtilleryClear View Author:Oswald Spengler
“All is well that ends well” WellsEndsPlayWiseWise WordsDramaAnd LoveItalianSonnetVeniceTempestJulietBragLife WisdomLearRomeo And Juliet PlayLove And TrustProverbialRomeo JulietMerchant Of VeniceRomeo And Juliet JulietRomeo And Juliet RomeoMidsummerMacbeth PlayStar Crossed LoversHamlet 2Romeo And Juliet LoveTamingMidsummer Night's DreamTrust LoveWise WisdomMeasure For MeasureWeb Of LifeTaming Of The ShrewMid Summer Nights DreamProverbs WisdomLove And LostItalian ProverbMerchant Of Venice FamousTwelfth Night ImportantWise ProverbsRomantic Romeo And JulietLove Is LostHamlet LovePlaying The FoolOld ProverbBraggartsPlay LifeBeing ItalianMeaning Well Book:The Key to Rondo Source: The Key to Rondo
“That's right. I'm scared to death. You said it's your first time, feeling chest pain, and nausea. Well it's not mine. I've felt that before, and I know how crazy hot it boils, and how dangerous it is. And I know myself. I'm a Yang Eun-nem-bi, so I boil faster, and hotter, than everyone else.” KnowsFirstsWellsSaidFeelingsPainFeltKnow HowCrazyDangerousMinesDramaFirst TimeHotScaredFasterChestsYangHotterNausea Author:Cheon Eunbi
“How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.” PeopleThinkingWellsKidsCertainBornActingQualityDramaUnderstoodSellsScreens Author:Joan Chen
“I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.” ThinkingWellsFunCareersComedyDramaFrance Author:Rachael Harris
“I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing comedies, as well as dramas.” WellsComedyDramaAgentsFranceHuntersHollies Author:Rachael Harris
“All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.” HumansWellsMightFilmFictionSituationNovelEventsHuman NatureDramaTiedDocumentariesGreat FilmGreat Novels Author:Jeremy Northam
“For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a comedy-drama about people who live in the United States. It's a slice-of-life. I play a character-that's it. But I was well aware of the gay lifestyle before the show. I've been hit on in a really strong way by gay men who've tried to convert me, and a lot of my heroes are gay. William Burroughs, Lou Reed. Well, I guess Lou Reed is bi. The point is, it's 2002, gay life is no longer that shocking.” PeopleThinkingMenWayWellsStatesPlayCharacterShowsBigsLife IsStrongUnitedDealsUnited StatesComedyHeroDramaGayLifestyleShockingBig DealMy HeroGay MenReedsSlice Of LifeBurroughsGay LifeGay Lifestyle Author:Gale Harold
“Every morning I look in the mirror and make a promise to myself. To stop acting like this today. That Mi Soo is a good friend. That John only loves me. But it doesn't work that well. I feel like I'm going crazy if John even smiles at Mi Soo. Even when they sit across from one another! I really feel like I'm going to die.” IfsFeelsWellsLooksTodayDiesActingMorningCrazyPromiseDramaMirrorsEvery MorningGood FriendOnly LoveGoing Crazy Author:Na Hae Ryeong
“Father, One day, a woman walked into my life. I hurt her deeply with the harshest words possible. I pushed her away as much as I could. But, she still came back to me. She is so much like me; I look at myself often when I look at her. She has the physical wounds that I have. The tears that fill my brain are flowing through her heart as well. I gave her those wounds. I made her cry. I should not have met her. I should not have allowed her to come into the life of a guy like me. Father, I'm regretting it. This is the first time... that I have ever regretted anything in my life.” ShouldFirstsWellsLooksHeartMadeStillsGuyFatherHurtBrainCryTearsRegretDramaMetsOne DayFirst TimeWoundsLike Me Author:Ma-Roo
“Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.” IfsFeelsWellsUsedSecretStudyWrittenShareCollegeDramaRomanticUsed To BeOddRomantic LoveEmbarrassingComedicMost Romantic Author:Gary Lineker
“The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They are the incorporation of the need of their collectivity for a new birth of spirit. They call down the creative spirit; they summon forth the future-even if it be through their own death” IfsNeedsWellsMaySpiritSocialBornCreativeBirthDramaMoonThese DaysMartyrSymbolicNew MoonCreative SpiritCollectivityIncorporation Author:Dane Rudhyar
“When I stand on stage, I get nervous, and because unexpected situations can occur, we need even more preparation. I must have confidence on top of that as well. The reason why I chose drama/theatre as my major is to act after learning all the theory first. You only live once, and I can only live as myself. I think I could learn a lot of things if I can live as others through acting.” IfsThinkingNeedsFirstsWellsI CanReasonActingSituationStageTheoryDramaMajorsTheatreNervousPreparationReason WhyUnexpectedHave ConfidenceYou Only Live Once Author:Seohyun