Quotes About Drama

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.

If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst role.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.

Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.

'Brahmotsavam' is a heart-warming family drama that will tug at the heart strings of the audience.

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists.

I'm a big show queen to begin with. I think in show tunes.

The fact that 'Mom' is not joke, joke, joke - and is investing in these characters and their lives, things that really happen to people - I think it's resonating, and that's why people are tuning into it and not just dismissing it as a multi-cam sitcom.

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

You want to see someone having turmoil or falling in love or out of love; that's what makes good TV.

Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

'The Turnaround' isn't even really a crime novel. But you need conflict to make a novel, any kind of novel, and I don't know any other way to do it than crime.

I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing, and I was immediately turned off. It's not my thing. But I continued on, and by the time I got to the end of the script, I had chicken skin and tears in my eyes. I thought, 'Man, we don't make movies like this anymore.'

I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic.

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!