Quotes About Drama

Britain in 2018 has the feel of a Netflix drama approaching its season finale. It's the classic 'how on earth does anyone get out of this one?' kind of cliffhanger, with all of the key protagonists confronted by their nemesis.

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I've had the really good-looking dramatic actor, and that has its problems. And then I'll go out with the funny guy. It's almost like the funny guy has more to prove.

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.

MEDEA: The children are dead. I say this to make you suffer.

We think it a very promising little war. A microcosm, as you might say, of world drama.

Incidents of this kind constantly occurred when Basil was on a racket.

I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

Yes—well they were having words and she tossed some sand in his face. So naturally he sat on top of her and rubbed her face in the sand. We were—electrified.

He doesn't want any trouble with ANYbody.' 'Who doesn't?' I inquired. 'Gatsby. Somebody told me——

I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

Everything is theater.

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In most good stories it is the character's personalty that creates the action of the story.

Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is presented in such a way that the reader has the sense that it is unfolding around him. This doesn't mean he has to identify himself with the character or feel compassion for the character or anything like that. It just means that fiction has to be largely presented rather than reported. Another way to say it is that though fiction is a narrative art, it relies heavily on the element of drama.

Mrs. Pritchard could not stand an anticlimax. She required the taste of blood from time to time to keep her equilibrium.

I am a Florenz Ziegfeld fanatic.

One of my fantasies is to produce 'Auntie Mame' as a play.

'12 Angry Men' has a truly great collection of actors giving fantastic performances. It's an acting masterclass.

I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.