Quotes About Drama

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.

I don't think I could write a straight drama.

I come from straight theater.

My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.

What I love about 'The Good Wife' is that it's not straightforward.

It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.

Bollywood is a strange world.

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

Putin underlined that one of the most disastrous consequences of the collapse of the USSR was that "for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory." And it is precisely this that Putin has begun to correct.

At the sensory level I am the divine receiving station...a two-legged, trembling-tissue, Jodrell Bank radar telescope, dancing, grumbling, sniffling Geiger counter" "But there's an added feature. Each generation, I...return. Each time carried onstage, blinking, puking, bawling, bewildered by the bizarre novelty of each new drama, untutored in the language of the new script (did she say her name was Mommie?)

In the West we have television timing. We like action—and lots of it.

Shakespeare broke a mold. After about five years of writing, he saw women as women, including the bind they had been put into. No other playwright, writing before Shakespeare or at the same time as Shakespeare, had ever seen women as women.

I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.

Life is a drama, but Death is a reality

Life is a drama, Death is a reality.

A costume is the least convincing part of a role. It's the acting that makes or breaks you.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

I was tired of the same saas-bahu family dramas that I was being offered, so I took a long break.

I don't get offered many comedies.