Quotes with drama

  • The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
  • Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
  • I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'
  • When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K.
  • Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
  • The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.
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  • Gore Vidal A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • E. M. Cioran Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Shirley Hazzard Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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  • Wilson Mizner A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Kenneth Tynan A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
    Kenneth Tynan
    English theater critic and writer (1927 - 1980)
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  • George Bernard Shaw As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Don DeLillo Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.
    White Noise (2011) 358
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Woody Allen Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Huntington Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Allen Tate Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Igor Stravinsky Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Bill Nunn Fortunately, I never had to do the waiter thing. When I got out of college, I immediately started to teach acting. One of the first jobs I had was in a federally-funded program where I taught drama to young people.
    Bill Nunn
     
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  • Alfred de Vigny France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Ben Shapiro Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Good drama must be drastic.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Aaron Spelling I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Albert Maltz I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Frank Capra I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
    Frank Capra
    American film director (1897 - 1991)
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