Top 175 Dramas Quotes

Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ is a drama, but because it’s funny, people market it as a comedy.

I personally don’t like family dramas, but don’t mind playing a mother or a homemaker, provided that character has an identity.

I’m into parlor dramas. I’m into theatre. I’m trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It’s a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as possible. In ‘Robin Hood’, you have more artistic license – it’s all action, adventure and reaction. This gives everyone a chance to make their characters their own and to make them believable.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there’s some levity added to it.

In an ideal world, I’d bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.

I have missed my fans so much and, above all, have wanted to appear in dramas.

We pitched ‘Sightseers’ as a TV idea originally, and it was rejected because it was too dark. But then things like ‘Dexter’ came out, ‘Breaking Bad’… There are so many sophisticated dramas now with comic elements to them.

Malayalam actress Ann Augustine, director V K Prakash, writer Jayaprakah Kulur and I have planned to produce quality dramas and to take it to a wide range of audience. We are making some popular works into stage plays.

I’ve had enough of the bleak headlines and divisive politics, dark TV dramas and hate-filled social media. I’m embracing a new movement with a slightly ridiculous name and a single mission, to make the world a better place. It’s called ‘hopepunk’.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

Oh gosh, I’m completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-rights movement. It’s not my favorite thing to watch. So often they feel like medicine. Or not even a history lesson, because I really like history. Just… obligatory.

There aren’t a lot of political dramas on TV, and those that are tend to be American.

I love period dramas – be it romance or philosophy.

For dramas, I’ve become more careful because now there are specific works that you think of when you hear the name Song Hye-kyo.

I’ve been doing dramas for a long time.

All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn’t do the dramas like ‘All My Sons.’

I think the sheer hell of trying to get a film made; I don’t know if it would ultimately be worth it. The sort of format that I have, these TV things, sit somewhere between documentaries and reality shows and entertainment shows and dramas.

I don’t enjoy other people’s dramas, and I don’t enjoy mine.

I think what you call ‘metropolitan America’ – as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles – I think there’s more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there’s the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It’s more formulaic.

When I was sent the material for auditions for ‘Dramaworld,’ I didn’t know much about the international fandom surrounding Korean dramas.

I always find with dramas that the more that’s left to the imagination of the audience, the better.

The one thing that makes ‘Torchwood’ work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.

Period dramas have their own challenges. One must work hard to ensure that you don’t just embrace the character you are playing, you also have to understand the smaller nuances of the period to deliver an authentic experience.

I’ve mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

In most espionage novels, the characters risk their lives trying to save somebody or while protecting a nation from some threat. In ‘The Travelers,’ that’s not what’s going on. I used espionage as a device to heighten the characters’ personal dramas.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

There are a ton of medical dramas out there dealing with life and death.

There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don’t have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation narratives.

I really like coming-of-age dramas. It’s probably the most intense period in anyone’s life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there’s so much to explore there. And it’s nice to be around young talent coming through.

I love all Daphne du Maurier’s stuff. And just enjoying period dramas, really… wanting to do something drastically different from ‘Nighty Night’, the chance to write very different language.

I’ve done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I’ve done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and ‘K-9,’ and ‘Curly Sue’ and of course, ‘According to Jim.’ I think that my comedies have been the most popular.

I’m glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to ‘Secret Life’ because I witnessed those similar struggles.

I don’t have a horror film in me just because I don’t like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.

I actually started in comedy, but then after ‘Deadwood’ I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, ‘It’s time to do another comedy.’

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

I like to make all kinds of shows and films, whether it’s fantasy or big-popcorn, big-screen escapism or dramas based on real events.

I think doing dramas kind of wears on you. It’s just intense.

When I am filming dramas, I lean towards doing what the public wants to see from me.

I’ve done a show at the Largo Theater called The ‘Thrilling Adventure Hour.’ We read, like, radio teleplays. It’s a send-up of radio dramas from the ’30s and ’40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.

I like the yin-yang of a cop’s life, where he’s part fascist and part saint. That’s where the good dramas are.

How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?

I always thought that fans would always turn away from me whenever they find more attractive actresses or dramas.

I find these dramas fascinating – it’s a world that many of us fortunately don’t dip into. The legal system is all around us, but the majority of us don’t have to go into a court, so it’s a way into another world that is unusual.

Two of my dramas, ‘Unforgotten’ and ‘River,’ were airing at the same time, and Dad had read about my ‘success’ in a newspaper – he thought it was brilliant. I was thinking, ‘Does this mean I’m going to be put in a box for a bit now?’

I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn’t able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on ‘E.R.’ That’s not generally thought of as a funny show.

I think that what ‘Oz’ did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television and just in great dramas. It’s the foundation of my career. Most producers, show runners, directors, and casting directors put me in movies based on my performance in that show.

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

I always have to get my U.K. fix, and ‘Downton Abbey’ is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one is particularly appealing – following the ins and outs of aristocracy as well as the interaction between the rich and the poor.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won’t necessarily be blockbusters.

I love period pieces. But it’s hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we’ll see.

While I prefer generally more personal dramas in which I can stretch myself… and while I’m not a science fiction buff, I consider ‘2001’ a great film, absolutely enthralling; at ‘Star Wars’ I had a fabulous time, and, at ‘Alien,’ while it was a silly story, I was knocked out.