I’ve never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It’s the most professional environment I’ve ever been in. – James McAvoy
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics. – John P. Kotter
It’s interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It’s like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both. – Jeff Bridges
There wasn’t much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do. – Julianne Moore
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama. – Jackie Chan
Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future. – Jason Bateman
We shoot with three cameras, try to shoot both sides of coverage if possible. That allows the actors to overlap and to find moments that feel more authentic and real than what you sometimes would normally get in a scripted drama that’s shot more classically. And that’s something in ‘Parenthood’ that has evolved. – Jason Katims
When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth. – James D’arcy
In an action film you act in the action. If it’s a dramatic film you act in the drama. – Jean-Claude Van Damme
I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine. – Jon Lovitz
Michigan is two radically different places – the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. – Jim Harrison
I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the ‘U.K. Sunday Times,’ who championed me as Shakespeare’s Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival. – Ian Mckellen
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. – Jacques Lacan
‘Blueprint 3’ is made up of songs, but it’s also a commentary on the idea that in order for rap to survive, we have to stretch out the drama. We have to stretch out the audience. It can’t be this narrow – we have to stretch out the point of view. – Jay-Z
Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it’s harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things. – Aunjanue Ellis
The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in ‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen’ together in 2004 and we’ve stayed in touch. – Adam Garcia
You know, comedy’s hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it. – Julianne Moore
When I got into drama school, that’s when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor. – James Norton