Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ewan McGregor

This middle-budget drama movies are just gone.

Ewan McGregor

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

Ewan McGregor

I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.

Evan Peters

I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.

Evan Peters

It's cool to see everybody come together and do their own thing, but there's never been any drama. I never saw any on the X-Men set, and I never saw any on the Horror Story set.

Eva Green

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

Eva Green

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

Kim Basinger

I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy.

Kevin Costner

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

Kevin Costner

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

Kevin Costner

Westerns aren't about the gunfight, even though it has to be there at one point. It's not what they're about, at least the good ones. It's about the drama. It's about the resourcefulness of men and women.

Kevin Costner

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

Kenneth Tynan

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

Kenneth Tynan

A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.

Kenneth Tynan

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Julia Child

Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Julia Child

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Julia Cameron

Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.

Paul Feig

I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

Paul Feig

I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.

Mary J. Blige

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

Mary J. Blige

I believe there should be no more drama, but it's everywhere you go. It's just about how you get out. You've gotta bob and weave because it's everywhere. How do I keep the drama low? It's about using your head.

Mary J. Blige

I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.

Martha Graham

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

Marshall McLuhan

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

Marshall McLuhan

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

Maria Callas

My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can't see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.

Paul Guilfoyle

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

Paul Greengrass

You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

Pam Gems

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Julia Ormond

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

Julia Sawalha

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.