Quotes on Drama

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

Author: Edward Albee

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

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

Author: George Baker

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

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

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

Author: George 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

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Author: Tom Baker

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

Author: Adam Baldwin

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

Author: Bruce Beresford

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

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

Author: Brenda Blethyn

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

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

Author: Edward Bond

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

Author: Montserrat Caballe

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 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

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

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.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

Author: Rachel Dratch

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

Author: John Eaton

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

Author: Jenna Elfman

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

Author: Fred Fielding

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

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

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

Author: Judy Garland

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

Author: Lesley Garrett

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

Author: Bruce Greenwood

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

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

Author: Noah Hathaway

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

Author: Vaclav Havel

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

Author: Victor Hugo

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

Author: Laura Innes

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

Author: Jeremy Irons

I liked the drama of getting stoned.

Author: Brion James

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

Author: James Jones

There's no drama like wrestling.

Author: Andy Kaufman

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

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

Author: Jacques Lacan

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

Author: James Levine

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

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

Author: Albert Maltz

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

Author: David Mamet

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

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

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

Author: Martin Milner

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

Author: Kel Mitchell

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

Author: Kel Mitchell

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

Author: Wilson Mizner

I'm a drama guy.

Author: Shemar Moore

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

Author: Graeme Murphy

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

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

Author: Richard O'Brien

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

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

Author: Elaine Paige

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

Author: Michel Patini

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

Author: Jean-Marie Pen

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

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

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'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 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

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

Author: Jason Statham

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

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

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

Author: Mario Vazquez

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

Author: Johnny Vegas

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

Author: Amanda Roberts