Lauren Cohan Quotes

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.

People tend not to dwell on drama.

I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don't need to make up so much drama now.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.

I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

I've never had a teenage rebellion; I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.

In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.

Don't get involved in the interoffice politics. On 'Suits,' it can be cheeky and fun to see Rachel and Donna being gossipy, but people get caught up in that. I think in life and in the office, it's best to stay out of the drama.

Getting trouble is always a problem when you are young and in a soap.

Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.

We don't need a psychologist with the Dutch team; we are grown-up men. The ones who have a problem with other players or the manager should tell them face-to-face. That is the only psychology we need.

At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

As we grow, we learn to handle situations differently than we normally would.

Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.

Drama often obscures the real issues

Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.

Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make them different.' What she meant was that in my films there is a character that faces insurmountable odds, and they overcome them. But I thought that might be true, but you need certain factors for drama, and you need to overcome them.

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.