Quotes About Drama

Questions are taken for granted rather than given a starring role in the human drama. Yet all my teaching and consulting experience has taught me that what builds a relationship, what solves problems, what moves things forward is asking the right questions.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

A play is fiction -- and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf…Martha: I… am… George… I am.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

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

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

I think drama has to push things to extremes so that we can understand what we are doing in our society.

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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Acta est fabula [The play is over].

A popular dramatist, Phrynichus, staged a play on the subject of the fall of Miletus. It was a hit and spectators wept at the moving reenactment. This did not do Phrynichus any good. He had laid bare their emotions and people were furious. They made him pay a heavy fine for reminding them of a real-life tragedy with which they were only too painfully familiar. They decreed that no drama on this subject should ever be presented again.

Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander – British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder.

Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander –

He was like an actor in one of those plays from between the wars where everyone talks for a long time but very little happens.

warned him against your play. I said that it was too peculiar for a modern audience and that nobody would understand what you were trying to get at. Is it a comedy? Is it a thriller? What is it, exactly? But he had complete faith in you, and now you turn up with your detective friend and cast aspersions on a man who is absolutely blameless and wouldn't dream of hurting anyone.

The trouble with this place is that everyone is super-sensitive and you can all too easily get accused of favouritism. I'm just telling you the facts. He was very ambitious. He'd have stabbed his own mother if it would help him to get cast.

British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder.

I personally don't like family dramas, but don't mind playing a mother or a homemaker, provided that character has an identity.

'Everwood' I think provides a unique feeling, an emotional experience. And other shows on TV don't have the acting talent to do that. Each one of our actors can do a serious scene and a humorous scene, and can do it all within the same sequence. They can go from a heartbreaking moment to a humorous moment.

I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.