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I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men. -- Charles Dance
It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played. -- June Allyson
They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role. -- Harvey Keitel
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically. -- Aaron Eckhart
I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments. -- Robert Webb
I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile. -- Jessica Lowndes
I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it. -- Hilary Duff
For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater. -- Kate Burton
I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically. -- Stephen Sondheim
The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres. -- Terry Teachout
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. -- George Pierce Baker
What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be. -- Ridley Scott
I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out. -- Bow Wow
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending. -- Bob Woodward
I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished. -- Jean Dujardin
In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast comedic actors to play dramatic roles because, really, there's no such thing. There's just actors. -- Noah Hawley
I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion. -- Patrick Marber
When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months. -- Vivica Fox
When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. -- Moby
I might play a lot of dramatic roles, but I'm really sort of silly. -- Leighton Meester
In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic. -- Mona Van Duyn
The good thing about Weeds now is, I get to play some dramatic parts in that as well. -- Kevin Nealon
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. -- Ambrose Bierce
When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play. -- Sheila Heti
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. -- George Pierce Baker

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