#drama

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Joan Jett

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In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

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The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants. ↗

— David Mamet

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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife. ↗

— David Mamet

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It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

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I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#comedies #dramas #i #think #want

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. ↗

— Leslie Mann

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When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic. ↗

— Leslie Mann

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