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A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.
Jenji Kohan
Me
Smart
Comedy
Nights
Drama
TV
Magical
Dash
Touchstone
More
Had
Days
Trade
Mix
Than
Wanted
Realism
Whimsical
Created
Jay
Show
Molly
Who
Series
Now
I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.
Jenna-Louise Coleman
Emotions
Drama
Everyone
Restrained
Like
Period
Underneath
Because
Raging
Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.
Jenna Elfman
Me
Drama
Seem
Just
Hard
Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.
Jenna Fischer
Myself
You
Drama
See
Know
Yeah
Doing
Ever
There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.
Jennifer Ehle
Time
Me
Relationship
Game
School
Year
Ambition
Drama
Drama School
Back
Once
Though
Someone
Never
Had
Suppose
Felt
Said
Been
Ambitious
Uneasy
Which
Plan
Then
Game Plan
Who
Shyness
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
Jensen Ackles
Character
Me
Comedy
Action
Drama
Fine
Like
Sci-Fi
Lot
Westerns
Story
Interesting
Compelling
A comic book and a straight drama all have the same elements. If you're playing tragedy, you have to be aware of the comedy; if you're playing comedy, you have to be aware of the tragedy. If you're playing comic book, you have to be aware of the reality.
Jeremy Irons
You
Reality
Book
Comedy
Drama
Comic
Comic Book
Tragedy
Same
Straight
Elements
Aware
Playing
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.
Jeremy Northam
Best
Political
Debate
Drama
Kind
Moral
About
Arena
Idea
Liked
Also
Always
Stylistic
Aesthetic
Itself
Discussions
Just
Producing
Acts
Thing
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
Jeremy Northam
Memories
Drama
Our
Hidden
Ancient
Would
Would-Be
Somehow
Primordial
Affects
View
Imaginations
There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
Jeremy Sisto
Work
You
Patience
Marriage
Commitment
People
Focus
Drama
Kid
Some
Takes
Stuff
Couple
Call
Within
Got
Real
Lot
Anymore
Places
Room
Then
Grow
Now
I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.
Jessalyn Gilsig
Remember
Comedy
Seen
Before
Drama
Once
Boston
Get
Did
Done
Public
When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun.
Jessica De Gouw
Made
Drama
Carnival
Would
Seemed
Something
Supernatural
Knew
Like
Period
Heard
Lot
Being
Interesting
Fun
Whole
Series
NBC
Twist
Dracula
Resist
We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
Jessica Hagedorn
Myself
You
Old
Imagination
Drama
Our
Those
Television
Immersed
About
Had
Know
Until
Comics
Years
Lot
Child
Eight
Either
Movies
Really
Use
Radio
Things
Two
I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.
Jessica Pare
Home
Comedy
Drama
Everything
Would
Something
More
Like
Obviously
Lot
Very
Done
Explore
I'd had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.
Jessie Buckley
Me
Age
People
School
Own
Drama
Gave
Drama School
Back
Out
Pretty
My Own
Had
Like
Friday
Friday Night
Normal
Up
Normal Things
Quickly
Going
Hanging
Just
Pub
Grow
Grow Up
Things
Night
Chance
My experiences and training back at drama school were very enlightening. I always believe in improving, be it kathak or my acting skills, and would want to experiment more when it comes to work.
Jiah Khan
Work
Training
School
Experiment
Believe
Drama
Drama School
Back
Would
More
Always
Were
Very
Improving
Want
Experiences
Skills
Acting
Enlightening
Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
Jim Beaver
You
Conflict
People
Path
Care
Drama
About
Putting
Obstacles
Who
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
Jim Harrison
Good
Drama
Makes
South
Contrast
North
Michigan
Different
Which
Places
Different Places
Radically
Good Drama
Two
There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.
Jim Parsons
Best
You
Drama
Way
Best Way
Audience
Doing
Get
Sitcom
Wonderfully
Anything
Whether
Mean
Your
Film
In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds.
Jim Rash
People
Stage
Community
Drama
Minds
Way
Weird
Weird Way
Sort
Behind
Keeping
I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.
Jim Rash
You
People
Sometimes
Comedy
Think
Drama
Say
Would
Balancing
Get
Afraid
You know something like 'Patriots Day' that I did a few years ago, which is a drama, is very different than comedy. That was super rewarding. I want to do more of that and also my own writing.
Jimmy O. Yang
Day
You
Writing
Comedy
Few
Own
Drama
Super
Something
My Own
More
Like
Know
Also
Years
Years Ago
Very
Than
Did
Rewarding
Different
Want
Patriots
Which
Comedy and drama are like two different sports; they both require athleticism but they're different.
Jimmy O. Yang
Sports
Comedy
Drama
Both
Like
Different
Require
Two
I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.
Jimmy Smits
Teacher
Me
Mother
Matter
Drama
Saw
Would
See
Seeing
Seem
Guy
Shakespeare
Take
Had
He
New
Know
Accent
Doing
Affected
Julia
Up
York
New York
James
Place
Mean
Us
Certain
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Actor
Right
Earl
Plays
I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
Joan Collins
Queen
Nice
Drama
Empire
America
Quite
Order
Anything
Which
Mean
England
Services
Received
British
British Empire
What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.
Joan Collins
Work
Hard Work
People
Training
School
Try
Young
Drama
Drama School
Shakespeare
Put
Study
Weird
Over
Read
Accents
Go
Celebrities
America
Same
Just
Famous
Different
Want
Young People
Hard
England
Who
Europe
Technique
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