Quotes About Drama

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

One of my favourites is American Beauty. Spacey is so good in that.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

If you look at 'The Best Man, ' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

There's no business like show business.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.

Laszlo's histrionics, which induce pursed lips and heavy silences in Lisa or in Sylvia, have been for me the breath of alien other worlds; they evoke the tumultuous unfettered society of Eastern Europe - languages I do not speak, cities I do not know, saints and tyrants and forests and vampires, a past that is more myth than history and all the better for it.

the drama upon the stage is sometimes no more than an intensification of the rituals within our own hearts.

She's really beating the stuffing out of him. What do you think we should do? Sell tickets. - Riker and Worf

City of God interprets all of the human story, from Creation to the Last Judgment, as the drama of divine providence and human free choice, especially the choice between the two most fundamental options of membership in one or the other of the two cities. The City of God is the invisible community of all who love God; the City of the World is all those who love the world and themselves as their God.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

No, I won't do it. I will not be locked into your head in this way. I will not participate in this drama for the sake of your fiction. Oh, darling, the hell with your fiction.

To become a new being. To bifurcate. The drama that underlies America's story, the high drama that is upping and leaving-and the energy and cruelty that rapturous drive demands." —p. 342

If he were around this place as a professor, he could teach 'Appropriate Behavior in Classical Greek Drama,' a course that would be over before it began.