“Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.” WayPlayDramaSingingOpera Author:Bruce Beresford
“When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.” HumansPlayLiteraturePleaseDramaDialogueDramaticRevelationsCharacterization Author:George P. Baker
“I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they're really good. And there's just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that's the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there's going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don't care whether it's art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don't think so.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsLooksMeanArtPlayCareCultureLiteratureNumbersMillionsDramaDon't CareI Don't CareGreekVolumeSheerLooking BackHandfulDevalue Author:Cormac McCarthy
“Even when I was on Curb Your Enthusiasm I wasn't this "over-the-top" crazy character. It was still kind of play it straight but it was funny because the situation was funny. That's kind of how I portrayed things and I like dramas; I like to be able to - because in dramas you can laugh and joke and still be serious, be real. I like the realism of them.” KindStillsRealPlayCharacterAbleSituationLaughingCrazySeriousDramaJokesEnthusiasmBeing RealRealismCurbOver The TopCurb Your Enthusiasm Author:Mekhi Phifer
“I find things funny that aren't self-aware. That don't know they're funny, and I think the same can hold true for drama. If you think you're in this tragedy and you play it for tragedy, there's a self-awareness there that I think takes you out of watching it and I believe it cuts both ways.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayBelieveSelfPlayI BelieveCuttingAwarenessDramaTragedySelf Awareness Author:Steve Carell
“Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do movies that are both... I hate when people say is it a comedy or a drama? My favorite movies are kind of both. Just like life, one day you're not crying all day, one day you're not laughing all day. I like to play characters that have that kind of balance, too.” PeopleKindMeanPlayCharacterHateGoalCareersLaughingComedyNiceSadnessCryBalanceDramaOne DayI HateMy FavoriteBeing NiceBeing MeBeing MeanHappiness Sadness Author:Topher Grace
“You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma.” PlayFunRolesComedyDramaOpposites Author:Luke Wilson
“I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to know Shakespeare and got a chance to play great parts in Shakespeare, because it really teaches you - or taught me, anyway - everything.” ThinkingKnowsPlayBigsSchoolChanceTeachTaughtDramaGladMy Time Author:Andre Holland
“I don't like weak women and I don't find it interesting to play them. I'm inspired by them, when I see them in dramas, like with Natalie Portman, in almost every movie she's in. It's awesome that chicks can really go there, and it's beautiful to watch, but I don't think I'm interested, in any way, shape or form, in embodying those creatures.” ThinkingWayPlayBeautifulFormInterestingWatchesDramaShapesCreaturesWeakInspiredChicksWeak Women Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.” ThinkingDifferentPlayFilmDramaCrossesGenreVagueDifferent Genres Author:Romola Garai
“Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.” I CanPlayBigsActionFilmBoysComedyWillingDramaProveAction Films Author:Sasha Grey
“The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.” PlayMomentsLiteratureLeftDramaEnglandBillsPresent MomentLinks Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“I've had a long association with the theater over the years but I had never produced a play and it was something that I'd always wanted to do.The movies moved away from dramas, and I think that I'm very excited by the opportunity to take smart writing that takes risks and see it on stage. It's exciting to see that engagement between the audience and the playwright.” ThinkingWritingYearsLongPlayWantedOpportunityAudienceRiskStageDramaSmartExcitingTheaterMovedExcitedEngagementAssociationPlaywright Author:Colin Callender
“I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants to play those dark roles and it's definitely true for me and I'd love to kind of challenge myself in any way possible.” WayWantKindPlayActorsSocialChallengesDarkRolesFansDramaIndependent Author:Nathalie Emmanuel
“The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.” PlayPurposeInterestExerciseDramaFrameworkHeartedFree SocietyNoisyRobustTidyFaint Hearted Author:John W. Gardner
“My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course I'll do that as well." But I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical and maybe the odd episode of [U.K. '80s TV drama] Casualty. My backup plan was to do something with children, to start a nursery school or work with underprivileged kids. And I still dream of maybe doing that in some way. I've always got children in my house, always.” ThinkingWayWellsChildrenStillsPlayDreamWould BeKidsSchoolRememberFilmCoursesActorsHousePlansTvsDadDramaMusicalMy DadActressesOddEpisodes80sNurseryCasualtiesBackupOlder SisterUnderprivilegedBackup PlanNursery School Author:Kate Winslet
“I used to dance a lot when I was younger. And I didn't want to stop doing it. I auditioned for drama school and then, luckily, I got my first job. There was never really a particular moment, more like moments of "I love this," or scripts that you read, or films that you watch, or plays that you see, that make you want to keep doing it.” WantFirstsPlayMomentsSchoolJobsFilmUsedWatchesParticularDramaScripts Author:Jenna Coleman
“The great thing about having a serialized drama (like 'Sons of Anarchy') is that I'm allowed to bring up events and circumstances that have happened in the past in other episodes to show that this kind of violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. It has ramifications. It has repercussions. Whether it's a week from now or five years from now, you know it will play out. Nothing is ever tied up into a perfect knot.” KnowsYearsKindPlayShowsHappensPastPerfectFiveViolenceHappenedWeekEventsSonCircumstancesDramaGreat ThingsFive YearsAnarchyTiedEpisodesVacuumsKnotsRepercussionsTied UpRamifications Author:Kurt Sutter
“Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.” StillsPlayFoundGamesPerfectMagicDramaBaseballDimensionsHockeyMomentary Author:Roy MacGregor
“There are very few horror shows, where you have a long running arc. Most horror shows play as a sort of an anthology. Buffy - a terrific show - had the-demon-of-the-week. Twilight Zone - X Files - these things had an anthology approach. Our show is a long running drama with the same creatures every week.” LongPlayShowsRunningWeekDramaHorrorCreaturesApproachDemonZoneTwilightTerrificFilesArcsAnthologyX FilesTwilight Zone Author:Glen Mazzara
“There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and freaking me out. This profession that we're in is drama. What drama has been since the beginning is, you restage plays with new casts, or a writer will take a new run at an old story.” Has BeensPlayStoriesRunningCryDramaCastsProfessionAnnoyingRemakesHue Author:William Monahan
“I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting clas-ses. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.” WayWantRealPlaySchoolActorsActingFiveDramaSeriesScriptsNinePerformingMonologuesSchool Plays Author:Vinny Guadagnino
“My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.” KindIdeasPlaySchoolDesireAliveKingsDramaChaosMy FavoriteFollowingRelatedAnimalistic Author:Hugh Jackman
“But, for the role of Sarah Linden, we saw everybody. Everybody wanted this role. Every female actor in town really wanted to play a real woman and be in this drama. It was incredible that all these women were coming in. And then, Mireille [Enos] walked in the door and she was reading the lines that I had written, and I saw her in that field. I was like, "Wow, she's the one."” RealPlayWantedReadingActorsLinesRolesSawsWrittenDoorsFieldsDramaFemaleTownsIncrediblesWowReal Women Author:Veena Sud
“I'm taking drama classes, they say I'm a natural actress. I think it's just because I talk a lot. I'm also learning how to play guitar and piano. Piano is really hard though. My dad is teaching me and I just get so confused because the chords are so different, but by learning I hope to be able to be a songwriter as well.” ThinkingWellsDifferentHardPlayAbleNaturalClassTeachingDadDramaGuitarMy DadActressesPianoConfusedSongwritersChordsSo ConfusedDrama Class Author:Lindsay Pagano
“I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.” PeoplePlayCharacterDramaMeetingsScaredScaryNervousMeeting New People Author:Meg Cabot
“I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.” ThinkingWayDifferentPlayStoriesRealizingRolesLoversDramaMembersDrawsVariousPartnersOur FamilyWho We AreFascinatedNavigateDynamics Author:Christopher Castellani
“I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered thing, but it's also very funny, which is simply a matter of the playwright being alive and observant and entertaining, and understanding not only the world but what will play.” ThinkingWorldWritingRealMatterPlayUnderstandingAliveBloodDramaExtremesTragicEntertainingPlaywrightObservant Author:William Monahan
“As a writer I'm committed to exploring what I call "The invisible things" - the things that people aren't talking about. I think that's where the juiciest conversations and the juiciest drama lives. My goal with the series is to get people talking about and reflecting on how issues of race play out in their own lives. Since I've spent a fair amount of time watching time travel shows and movies where the leads are White (and can blend in really easily no matter the time period) I thought I would turn that on its head and see what might happen.” PeopleThinkingMatterPlayShowsMightHappensTurnsGoalWhiteRaceTalkingIssuesAmountPeriodsDramaConversationFairsSeriesCommittedInvisibleTime TravelExploringReflectingPeople TalkingTime PeriodsInvisible ThingsDrama Life Author:Steven C. Harper
“Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a lot about that. I used to say I'm not going to act old, Penelope. I'll just be myself.” WayPlaySchoolUsedLaughingDrama Author:Maggie Smith
“Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.” NeedsPlaySchoolNeededDramaTrainingBreathsYeahExpensive Author:Meryl Streep
“John Cassavetes was a year ahead of me but we met there. What you do when you are at a school for drama, you do a play as opposed to a final. Anyone who wanted to come could just come. So he came, and I can't remember the name of the play, of course, it was a long time ago.” YearsLongI CanPlayWantedSchoolRememberCoursesNamesDramaMetsLong TimeFinalsLong Time Ago Author:Gena Rowlands
“Isla [Fisher] is so pretty we were trying to decide who the hell should play against her that would intimidate her, and one day I said, "You know...this was before Superman had come out, Superman v. Batman: The Court Room Drama I like to call it.” KnowsShouldTryingSaidPlayRoomsHellDramaOne DayCourtIntimidating Author:Greg Mottola
“[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.” LittlesPlayWantedSchoolStageFashionColorDramaTheaterActressesLoudPrincessFrightBallerinaExtrovertsStage FrightSchool PlaysExhibitionist Author:Vanessa Kirby
“One of the things I love about negotiations is that you have to be able to play it like an orchestra, different instruments for different circumstances. There's sweetness, and encouragement, and cajoling. There's pressure, there's drama, there's ultimatums.” DifferentPlayAbleCircumstancesDramaEncouragementPressureInstrumentsSweetnessNegotiationOrchestraThings I Love Author:Susan Rice
“Everybody used to say going to restaurants... is like theater, there's stage sets, there's drama, there's play acting and you watch the show. And now, boy, everything's just become so serious. And you sit at the counter and the chef comes out and tells you what he did to the Brussels sprouts leaves and no, there's not a lot of dancing.” PlayShowsUsedActingBoysWatchesStageSeriousDramaTheaterDancingRestaurantsChefSproutsBrusselsBrussel Sprouts Author:Pete Wells
“I've always enjoyed family movies anyway. And I grew up loving actors who could hop around and play in something very family friendly, big, playful - and then go and do drama and comedy as well.” WellsPlayBigsActorsComedyGrewDramaGrew UpEnjoyedHopsFriendlyFamily Friends Author:Dan Stevens
“I think I actually did a production of "Under Milkwood," this Welsh play, with my drama group (at school), and I always remember taking everything far too seriously, and that it wasn't just a hobby but something I wanted to keep on doing.” ThinkingPlayWantedSchoolRememberGroupsDramaProductionsHobbiesWelsh Author:Felicity Jones
“You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.” PlayCharacterValuesGamesCreativityDramaRewardsMythPunishmentFantasticZeroSoloMarkersWellspringZero Sum Game Author:Tony Kushner
“But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.” HeartKindPlayReadyDramaGentle Author:Jenifer Lewis
“There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.” IfsPlayCharacterDramaConflictLayersGrappling Author:Clive Owen
“I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.” IfsTryingStillsRealHardPlayCharacterFightingRolesLaughingComedyDramaTelling The TruthStakesScenarios Author:Chris Pratt
“Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.” WorldStatesPlayAmericaEvilBeliefUnitedViewsUnited StatesStageDramaGoodnessHistoricalArroganceUnited States Of AmericaVersusMonopolyUnbecomingGoodness And TruthGreat Historical Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.” PeopleKindDifferentPlayCharacterGroupsStudentsDramaMy TimeSwingsNerdChorusChoir Author:John C. Reilly
“Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.” FirstsPlayDifferencesActingComedyDramaMethodGenreFirst Love Author:Emma Stone
“There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.” ReasonPlayStoriesFunComedyModernDramaParksStarksAvengers Author:Joss Whedon
“All is well that ends well” WellsEndsPlayWiseWise WordsDramaAnd LoveItalianSonnetVeniceTempestJulietBragLife WisdomLearRomeo And Juliet PlayLove And TrustProverbialRomeo JulietMerchant Of VeniceRomeo And Juliet JulietRomeo And Juliet RomeoMidsummerMacbeth PlayStar Crossed LoversHamlet 2Romeo And Juliet LoveTamingMidsummer Night's DreamTrust LoveWise WisdomMeasure For MeasureWeb Of LifeTaming Of The ShrewMid Summer Nights DreamProverbs WisdomLove And LostItalian ProverbMerchant Of Venice FamousTwelfth Night ImportantWise ProverbsRomantic Romeo And JulietLove Is LostHamlet LovePlaying The FoolOld ProverbBraggartsPlay LifeBeing ItalianMeaning Well Book:The Key to Rondo Source: The Key to Rondo
“To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.” KnowsPlayRealityBeautifulSpiritualSocialLosesFictionRolesDramaUltimateConversionOpennessTurning Points Author:Rajneesh
“In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to provide a villain to play off Jesus in his fictitious drama. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing. I find the reality thrilling.” PeopleMatterPlayStoriesRealityTogetherReligionJesusImpossibleDramaFlowFulfillmentVillainBe YouDisturbingThrillingLiedLukeInconsistentFudgeHe LiedMicah Author:Richard Dawkins
“An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.” PlayActorsRealizingInterestingActingWrittenTroubleTaughtDramaConflictPerformancesExtraordinaryUnusualClimax Author:Michael Shurtleff