Quotes About Drama

The theater was my mother and my father.

I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.

I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It's people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It's a beautiful thing.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.