I started off in drama, and there are so many women that I admire. Women in this industry are gladiators. Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Regina King. – Bresha Webb
It’s not some big event that creates the drama, it’s the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama. – Asghar Farhadi
In contrast to our sinking taste, there has been a revival of interest in verse drama in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. The movement has been slow but sure and, above all, modest in its demands. – Austin Clarke
Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there’s this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you’re old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren’t the roles. – Amanda Donohoe
After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ I played Romeo. – Clive Owen
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that’s a really classic form of humor. – Chuck Palahniuk
The nice thing about student drama is that you’re allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn’t mean no one will ever hire you again. – Anna Popplewell
I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I’m not going to say, ‘I’m only a drama filmmaker’ anymore. – Gillian Armstrong
I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, ‘I don’t wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.’ – Melanie Lynskey
I love gritty drama. I’m passionate about films and drama that make you think – hard-hitting, gravelly characters. – Emma Rigby
The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn’t. – Naomie Harris
I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center. – Deepak Chopra
I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It’s softened up a bit. – Gemma Arterton
One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath. – Elaine Paige
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement – they offer not drama but thrills. – David Mamet
I don’t know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that’s become what we generalize as drama. – Matt Bomer
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened. – Ellen McLaughlin