231 Quotes on Drama

• Laughter, like choreography, creates an orchestration of lightness that bounces never-ending through the corridors of our shared silence.

  Author: Elara Fieldstone

• Even fragments of thought structure melodies outside the symphonies of polished words.

  Author: Lila Avendano

• The beauty of chance gatherings lies in their disregard for perfection; every unfiltered interaction captures the rawness of human connection.

  Author: Evelyn Rhodes

• Inside the beautifully executed missteps of unscripted dialogues lies spontaneity that can lift discourse to poetic heights.

  Author: Mia Thorne

• In the steely embrace of chaos, silence monumentalizes doubt; in that whispered space lies the courage to dwell untethered.

  Author: Liora Flint

• In the silence, every wisp of life is reborn; beneath unplayed keys, thoughts bloom without distortion.

  Author: Aurora Wick

• In the theater of life, embrace the spotlight and always be ready for your heroic moment.

  Author: Amanda Roberts

• I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  Author: Ed Wood

• Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

  Author: Luke Wilson

• People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

  Author: Kenneth Williams

• People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

  Author: Kim Wilde

• I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

  Author: Dianne Wiest

• When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

  Author: Devon Werkheiser

• Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

  Author: Alfred Vigny

• I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.

  Author: Mario Vazquez

• A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

  Author: Kenneth Tynan

• I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

  Author: Pete Townshend

• What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

  Author: Pete Townshend

• One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

  Author: Robert Towne

• There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.

  Author: Rod Taylor

• Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

  Author: Allen Tate

• Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.

  Author: Sarah Sutton

• Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

  Author: Jason Statham

• I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

  Author: Aaron Sorkin

• Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

  Author: Aaron Sorkin

• There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

  Author: Erika Slezak

• In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

  Author: Percy Shelley

• There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

  Author: William Shatner

• I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.

  Author: Molly Shannon

• They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

  Author: Michelle Rodriguez

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  Author: J. Roberts

• I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

  Author: Carl Reiner

• This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

  Author: John Reilly

• Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

  Author: Luigi Pirandello

• It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

  Author: Sean Penn

• Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

  Author: Jean-Marie Pen

• I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'

  Author: Robert Pattinson

• For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

  Author: Michel Patini

• My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

  Author: Christopher Parker

• One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

  Author: Elaine Paige

• When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

  Author: Julia Ormond

• You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

  Author: Michael Ondaatje

• The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

  Author: Laurence Olivier

• I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

  Author: Richard O'Brien

• 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.

  Author: Jeremy Northam

• The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

  Author: Jeremy Northam

• When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

  Author: Robert Niro

• Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

  Author: Graeme Murphy

• War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

  Author: Lewis Mumford

• I'm a drama guy.

  Author: Shemar Moore

• I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.

  Author: Mary Moore

• 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.

  Author: Julianne Moore

• A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

  Author: Wilson Mizner

• I'm doing music, and we both want to do some drama.

  Author: Kel Mitchell

• If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.

  Author: Kel Mitchell

• I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no.

  Author: Kel Mitchell

• I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

  Author: Martin Milner

• Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

  Author: John Milius

• It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

  Author: Charles Merriam

• My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

  Author: Jayne Meadows

• I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'

  Author: Ian Mckellen

• From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

  Author: Ewan McGregor

• Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

  Author: Greil Marcus

• They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

  Author: Joe Mantegna

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

  Author: David Mamet

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

  Author: David Mamet

• I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

  Author: Albert Maltz

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

  Author: Gustav Mahler

• The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

  Author: Ann Macbeth

• The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.

  Author: Ann Macbeth

• We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important.

  Author: Ann Macbeth

• Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

  Author: Robert Lynd

• Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

  Author: Josh Lucas

• I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

  Author: Greg Louganis

• Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

  Author: Mario Lopez

• We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.

  Author: James Lipton

• But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

  Author: Jenifer Lewis

• I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

  Author: James Levine

• Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

  Author: Phil Lesh

• I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

  Author: John Leguizamo

• I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

  Author: Ang Lee

• I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.

  Author: Amy Lee

• When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

  Author: Matt LeBlanc

• Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

  Author: Nicholas Lea

• I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

  Author: Taylor Lautner

• I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

  Author: Hugh Laurie

• The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

  Author: Dino Laurentiis

• The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

  Author: Jacques Lacan

• I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

  Author: Lisa Kudrow

• Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for "Lord of the Rings" out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.

  Author: Diane Kruger

• I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

  Author: Diane Kruger

• I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.

  Author: John Krasinski

• I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

  Author: Harvey Korman

• To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

  Author: Junichiro Koizumi

• And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

  Author: Robert Klein

• But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

  Author: Robert Klein

• One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

  Author: Margot Kidder

• There's no drama like wrestling.

  Author: Andy Kaufman

• I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

  Author: Star Jones

• So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

  Author: James Jones

• So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

  Author: James Jones

• When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

  Author: James Jones

• Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

  Author: Eric Johnston

• Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

  Author: Allison Janney

• I liked the drama of getting stoned.

  Author: Brion James

• My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

  Author: Jeremy Irons

• We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

  Author: Laura Innes

• The margin between success and drama is fractional.

  Author: Jacky Ickx

• The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

  Author: Laurence Housman

• I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.

  Author: Chris Hemsworth

• Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

  Author: Vaclav Havel

• I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger.

  Author: Noah Hathaway

• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  Author: Ian Hart

• Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

  Author: Jim Harrison

• 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.

  Author: Jessica Hagedorn

• Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

  Author: Steve Guttenberg

• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  Author: Rachel Griffiths

• Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

  Author: John Grierson

• The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

  Author: William Greider

• With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

  Author: Bruce Greenwood

• In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

  Author: Paul Greengrass

• A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

  Author: Eva Green

• My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

  Author: Richard Grant

• In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

  Author: Juan Goytisolo

• Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

  Author: Sharon Gless

• You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

  Author: Sharon Gless

• Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

  Author: Mel Gibson

• The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.

  Author: Debbie Gibson

• Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

  Author: Boy George

• Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

  Author: Pam Gems

• In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

  Author: Sarah Gellar

• But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

  Author: Patrick Geddes

• Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

  Author: Lesley Garrett

• I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

  Author: Judy Garland

• Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

  Author: Joe Garagiola

• As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

  Author: Megan Gallagher

• I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

  Author: Michael Fox

• I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have.

  Author: Megan Fox

• Culture clash is terrific drama.

  Author: Ken Follett

• World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

  Author: Ken Follett

• Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

  Author: Louise Fletcher

• Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

  Author: Mike Figgis

• This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.

  Author: Fred Fielding

• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  Author: Sally Field

• I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.

  Author: Tina Fey

• I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

  Author: Will Ferrell

• You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

  Author: Michael Fassbender

• It's drama, it's a lot of things, but you know it's always about every movie or every TV project ever made is meant to be watched. If people like it and support it, that's what it is all about, really it's sort of the important part about it.

  Author: Will Estes

• Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

  Author: Jenna Elfman

• In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

  Author: Jenna Elfman

• Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

  Author: Chiwetel Ejiofor

• I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

  Author: Chiwetel Ejiofor

• Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

  Author: John Eaton

• My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

  Author: Clint Eastwood

• People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

  Author: Hilary Duff

• Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

  Author: John Drinkwater

• But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

  Author: Rachel Dratch

• If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

  Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

• In life's theater, the most thrilling performances unfold not in the spotlight's glare, but amidst the ephemeral sighs of absence pregnant with meaning.

  Author: Yasmin Caldwell

• The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

  Author: Robertson Davies

• I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

  Author: Bobby Darin

• When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

  Author: James D'arcy

• There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

  Author: James D'arcy

• I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

  Author: Hugh Dancy

• In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

  Author: Jean Damme

• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

  Author: Ralph Cram

• To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

  Author: Nikki Cox

• I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

  Author: Bernard Cornwell

• 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.

  Author: Joan Collins

• How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

  Author: Joan Chen

• No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

  Author: Helena Carter

• It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

  Author: Jennifer Capriati

• I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

  Author: Frank Capra

• Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?

  Author: Montserrat Caballe

• I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

  Author: Ken Burns

• I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

  Author: Ken Burns

• I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

  Author: Delta Burke

• Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

  Author: James Broughton

• In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

  Author: Andrew Bradley

• Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

  Author: Omar Bongo

• Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

  Author: Edward Bond

• Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

  Author: Edward Bond

• The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

  Author: Edward Bond

• You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

  Author: Edward Bond

• I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

  Author: Orlando Bloom

• I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

  Author: Brenda Blethyn

• When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.

  Author: Brenda Blethyn

• So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

  Author: Michael Beschloss

• It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

  Author: Bruce Beresford

• Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

  Author: Bruce Beresford

• I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

  Author: Adam Baldwin

• Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

  Author: Tom Baker

• We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

  Author: George Baker

• Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

  Author: George Baker

• When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

  Author: George Baker

• No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

  Author: George Baker

• In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

  Author: George Baker

• Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

  Author: George Baker

• Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

  Author: George Baker

• Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

  Author: George Baker

• Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

  Author: Milton Avery

• These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.

  Author: Darren Aronofsky

• An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

  Author: Desi Arnaz

• I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

  Author: Adam Arkin

• I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

  Author: Francesca Annis

• Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

  Author: Woody Allen

• To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

  Author: Hannes Alfven

• If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

  Author: Edward Albee

• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  Author: Kate Adie

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