“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.” PeopleIfsMadeRealKidsGrowsStuffRoomsFocusCoupleDramaCommitment Author:Jeremy Sisto
“To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.” ThinkingWorldWayHumansEndsFilmWishWaitingRoomsWatchesDramaUniversalIntenseWaiting Rooms Author:Mick LaSalle
“When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because they would see that I hadn't been to drama school and wouldn't want to see me. Now, I feel like it's changing. We have this new generation of a lot of writers, directors and actors who are just breaking through, and they're doing it for the passion.” WantFeelsFirstsSchoolPassionActorsDifficultRoomsGenerationsDramaDirectorsCastingNew GenerationCasting Directors Author:Kaya Scodelario
“I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.” ThinkingRoomsFrontsDramaTragedyGreekEpicGreek Tragedy Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“I don't think my acting was ever bad; I always knew that I could do it. But when you go to audition for a drama, they're very serious in the room, and I was used to being kind of goofy and having small talk.” ThinkingKindUsedRoomsActingSeriousDramaBe KindAuditionsGoofySmall Talk Author:Mary Lynn Rajskub
“Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.” YearsKindLittlesDifferentFactsTodaySongActorsDifferencesRoomsEmotionCreativityGoneRecordsSourceInvolvedDramaIntelligentSingersPretendingYears Gone By Author:Bob Dylan
“So the real drama for me is balancing live performances and writing, and one of the ways I balance it is I write in hotel rooms. That's not exactly balancing. Actually, writing in hotel rooms means that I'm refusing to deal with the problem.” WayWritingMeanRealProblemRoomsDealsBalanceDramaPerformancesHotelHotel RoomsLive Performance Author:Philip Glass
“I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.” WorldUsedRoomsPeriodsDramaSittingDrawingRestraintPolite Author:Clive Owen