Quotes About Drama

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Opera tells stories that all ages can relate to: love, death, revenge, etc.

The best job was when I was at drama school and I cleaned flats in the Barbican. I loved it. They were spotless anyway, so you'd just watch the telly and flick a duster around.

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

She figured Nolasco wanted her there to call her out in front of Williams and Laub and otherwise run around the room pissing on chairs.

When my fictional characters can't slash and slog and litter the pages with one another's carcasses, I'm an utter flop as a tale-spinner.

Governments like it that way. They want their people to see war as a drama of opposites, good and evil, "them" and "us," victory or defeat. But war is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

I do," said Robin in a ringing voice, looking straight into the eyes, not of her stony-faced new husband, but of the battered and bloodied man who had just sent her flowers crashing to the floor.

Jacobean revenge tragedies,

I've got a job," Max told Robin, muting the TV. Two champagne glasses and a bottle were sitting on the coffee table in front of him. "Second lead, new drama, BBC One. Have a drink." "Max, that's fantastic!" said Robin, thrilled for him.

Strike had long since come to believe that she engineered situations out of an apparently insatiable need for conflict.

In a family there is always something or other going awry…

Trouble is, you're just as dead if you're knifed by a self-dramatizing twat as by a professional.

desire had its exaggerated and dramatic pleasures, but he was bored by the endless scenes and recantations. Love was simply the same steady heartbeat hour after hour. It bored him with its lack of event.

Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.

For there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.

So movement by movement the gorgeous drama was enacted; the murmuring of the crowds died to a stillness that was but one wordless prayer as the tiny White Disc rose between the white hands, and the thin angelic music pealed in the dome. For here was the one hope of these thousands, as mighty and as little as once within the Manger. There was none other that fought for them but only God.

Think of the wonderful chemistry by which bread was changed into the divine tragedy of Hamlet.

at Bodine, who pulled out the Winchester rifle as Jess slid his

The way I always kind of look at it: everything's important and nothing's important. If you're gonna have a drama, have it over something that's worth the time. Some people take it more seriously than others, like a Lowell. But we all end up the same.

The storm to end all storms is coming," he had said, "and the only question is going to be who wields the lightning and the thunder." Oppenheimer had always been prone to such melodramatic language. "It has to be us.