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People feel that drama is more important. Dramas always earn more honors than comedy. -- Letty Aronson
Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have. -- Rob McElhenney
Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them. -- Josh Stewart
I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine. -- Ali MacGraw
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction. -- Michael Sheen
I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the central character. -- Jodie Whittaker
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families. -- Joyce Maynard
There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now. -- Julianne Moore
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. -- Honore de Balzac
I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself. -- Vanessa Paradis
Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be. -- Layne Staley
I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that! -- Tyler Perry
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. -- Chuck Palahniuk
My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitcase in the hall, but there is another woman involved. Her name is Dementia. -- Laurie Graham
I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life. -- Joss Whedon
There are always going to be hospital dramas because if you're sitting in an emergency room for two hours, I guarantee you you are going to see something that makes you gasp. That's where drama comes from. -- Rocky Carroll
I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine. -- Patsy Kensit
I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors. -- Helena Bonham Carter
With action movies, that's just fun stuff for me. That's me being a kid again. Same with 'The Best of Me' and these romantic dramas. It's such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie. -- Luke Bracey
I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them. -- Barkhad Abdi
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In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think they can go together really well and really thoughtfully. But, I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch. -- Sarah Silverman
I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself. -- David Chase
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess. -- Jodi Picoult
A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live. -- Umera Ahmad
I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don't do that anymore. I'm satisfied. I'm not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I'm trying to prove something. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
I played comedies and dramas. -- William Shatner
Courtroom dramas can be boring. -- Laura Linney
I'd like to do more family dramas. -- Aaron Eckhart
My principal focus is finding great dramas. -- Colin Callender
I think that period dramas just need zombies. -- Lily James
I love political dramas. I love good story-telling. -- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas. -- Bruno Heller
You know, I've always wanted to do dramas. -- Sean William Scott
Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas. -- Gabriel Macht
I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies. -- Johnny Knoxville
With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive. -- Emily VanCamp
Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas. -- Gabriel Macht
Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic. -- Scott Eastwood
There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life. -- Sax Rohmer
Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies, -- Mike Nichols
I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well. -- Robin McLeavy
I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas. -- Tamsin Egerton
The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death. -- Ray Winstone
A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy. -- Emily Blunt
Your inner peace has nothing to do with your dramas of your life. -- Susan Jeffers
I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas. -- Alex Trebek
I'm drawn to dramas that make people think. I want to make an impact. -- Stephen Graham
I'm a big fan of comedies and dramas, and I watch tons of movies. -- Clive Owen
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak. -- Tom Hooper
I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it. -- Rachel Bilson
With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them. -- Clive Standen
I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny. -- Peter Gallagher
I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas. -- Tobias Lindholm
Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations. -- Walter Hill
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors. -- Marcus Aurelius
The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes. -- Cynthia Addai-Robinson
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. -- David Yates
I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything. -- Lauren Socha
A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best. -- Graeme Simsion
I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas. -- Ethan Hawke
It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television. -- John Barrowman
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well. -- Jodie Foster
People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain. -- James Nesbitt
The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas. -- Milan Kundera
People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality. -- Shelley Conn
When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas. -- Howard Rheingold
Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America. -- Tuppence Middleton
I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people. -- Dominic West
I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy. -- Kim Basinger
In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas. -- Mia Kirshner
I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see. -- Cary Fukunaga
I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing. -- Shayne Ward
Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now. -- Dan Wakefield
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas. -- Norman Lock
I like dramas and stuff. That's what I watch, but it seems weird that I'd be in it. -- Amy Sedaris
I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time. -- Jeremy Piven
I don't smoke, drink alcohol well, or play games. But I watch dramas. It is hard to quit. -- Yoseob
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven. -- Honore de Balzac
I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors. -- Bruce Forsyth
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. -- Benjamin Tucker
Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors. -- Idris Elba
Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to. -- Rob Lowe
As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening. -- Felicity Kendal
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. -- Michael Caine
I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller. -- Julia Sawalha
I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters. -- Gina Bellman
I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented. -- Stephen Dorff
You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change. -- Gillian Jacobs
Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things. -- Ralph Marston
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand. -- Ethel Merman
Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort. -- Tom Shales
I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life. -- Bridget Moynahan
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand -- Ethel Merman
I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas. -- Sam Raimi
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way. -- Mark Rothko
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. -- Clark Johnson
It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge. -- Katori Hall
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, the higher your profile, the more castable you are in TV dramas. -- Cherie Lunghi
Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas. -- Barry Marshall
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness. -- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies. -- Josh Trank
I really like action-dramas like 'The Professional' or 'La Femme Nikita.' I'd really like to be in a movie like that. -- Cassie Steele
There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side. -- Errol Morris
The aim is to move from doing just action dramas to establishing myself as someone who can do family dramas as well. -- Duniya Vijay
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. -- Steven Spielberg
I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching. -- Arthur Darvill
I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns. -- Terry Teachout
I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things. -- Frank Oz
I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things. -- Frank Oz
I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas. -- Lisa Cholodenko
Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films. -- David Dastmalchian
I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them. -- Kevin Whately

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