Quotes About Drama

nadie utilizó la palabra «robot» hasta 1920 (casualmente el año en que yo nací). Aquel año, un dramaturgo checo, Karel Capek, escribió la obra R.U.R., sobre un inglés, Rossum, que fabricaba seres humanos artificiales en cantidad. Éstos estaban destinados a realizar las labores arduas de la Tierra, de forma que los seres humanos reales pudiesen vivir placentera y confortablemente sus vidas.

There was a thin, reedy quaver in the air, that wavered raggedly up the scale. It hovered, dropped and caught itself, gained in body, and swooped into a booming crash that had the effect of a thunderous split in a veiling curtain.

Naturally, trouble makes for greater drama than does happiness, and it asks for more in the way of human response

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

Sometimes I've been more emotionally disturbed by the experience of shooting a comedy than a drama. After 'We're the Millers', I think playing this battered loser who's confidence was at zero for 90 percent of the movie, I did genuinely feel that way.

If you're going to be a zombie in a movie, you go big or go home.

'The Walking Dead' do such a great job with that world. It is real, but it's also otherworldly; it's strangely theatrical, and I suddenly did become quite invested in the whole zombie phenomenon.

What I love about 'The Walking Dead' is it's a human story, which is to me what makes the comic book so good, but once you jump from the pages of the book to the screen, the gore and the zombies have to look great.

'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.

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.

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

There are some great roles - mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Playing Shakespeare is very tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're a king.

As an actor, he should be an extra in police line-ups.

The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.

The play's the thing.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.