Quotes About Drama

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.

I did plays in grade school.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.

I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

I don't know of any American playwrights who earn the bulk of their living writing plays. Many of the older ones teach, while a growing number of younger ones write for series television.

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or to be the domestic difficulty.

I would spend a lot of time setting up an accident scene where it appeared that I had seriously hurt myself - hedge-cutter, ketchup, that sort of thing. When my sister happened upon the scene of horror, I would lift my head and pathetically plead for her to 'get Mum'.

Original 'Dallas' fans, please come back, because it's the same show 20 years later - same drama.

I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.