Quotes About Drama

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres.

When I work onstage, I want to play roles that have real, deep theatricality, that aren't the sort you would easily see on television and in the movies.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

I always loved the sheer physical act of being onstage.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of 'Game of Thrones' is delivered in its opening moments. I sit down, settle in, and... BUM-bum, bah-dah-BUM-bum.

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

Opera is really fun.

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.

You don't have to make a grand, exaggerated sound to sing opera.

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

You can't get down and dirty at the opera.

I like Strauss's operas because it's all women's voices; I like opera that's hysterical.