“The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.” KnowsNeedsHumansLongPlayCharacterBigsOrderStepsCasesLaughingTaughtHumourTvsDramaLong TimeLaughterJokesTragedyInsightActressesRealisingSeventiesGreat WritersArthurAuschwitzChekhovGallows Author:Vanessa Redgrave
“Drama is hate. Drama is pushing your pain onto others. Drama is destruction. Some take pleasure in creating drama while others make excuses to stay stuck in drama. I choose not to step into a web of drama that I can't get out of.” I CanPainHatePleasureStepsDramaCreatingDestructionExcuseStuckPushing Author:Bindu
“When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.” MomentsStepsDramaIceSuspenseTensionThat MomentNervesSheerSkater Book:Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating Source: Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating
“It is a very strong rule in drama, and in life, that people remain true to their basic natures. They change, and their change is essential for drama, but typically they only change a little, taking a single step towards integrating a forgotten or rejected quality into their natures.” PeopleLittlesStrongQualityStepsDramaEssentialsForgottenVery StrongRejectedIntegratingSingle Step Author:Christopher Vogler
“There's something that happens where you go, if you're lucky, goodness me, from film to another film to another film. And you can sort of feel that if you step off that treadmill, it might all go horribly wrong and you might never be employed again, you know. And I suddenly thought that that's not necessarily the case. And I also thought we make drama as actors about people in the world and that if you are on that treadmill, you start making films about other films.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldFeelsMightHappensFilmActorsStepsCasesDramaLuckyGoodnessEmployedTreadmills Author:Ewan McGregor
“Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” IfsBelieveChildrenUseAsksWishParentUnderstandingStepsAdviceMaterialsDramaBlessingWasteParentingUnconditional LoveHave FaithProvidingEldersInheritanceUnconditionalChildren And Parents Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“There is a streetlight in front of Soo Yeon's house. From there to home, it takes 280 steps. If we have been walking away from each other for 14 years, how many steps will it take to get back? If she doesn't come even if I wait, that doesn't mean that she abandoned me.. it means she is on her way.” IfsWayYearsMeanHas BeensHomeHouseWaitingStepsFrontsWalkingDramaGet BackAbandonedWalking AwayAway From Each Other Author:Ha Jung-woo
“My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.” JobsActingStepsDramaShoesAccomplishmentPortDaytimeLarks Author:Amy Weber
“Heaven...a place where there is neither sufferings, sadness nor separation... Now we climb the stairways to heaven one step by one step and when we ascend, we will live.” SufferingHeavenStepsSadnessDramaSeparationClimbsStairwaysStairway To Heaven Author:Suh Jung