Drama Quotes - Page 26

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.

She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid.

There's always something every night that I learn from reacting to what the audience is reacting to. You learn what to leave out, what to put in, if you need a little more comedy or more drama.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

I did study drama at Catholic U, but the undergraduates weren't put in productions, really, except as extras, and it wasn't a hands-on kind of thing at all. I couldn't afford to go to another college. And my grandparents lived in D.C., so I was able to live with them, and that's how I was able to afford it at all.

I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, changewhich suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.

Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of infinite possibilities separating man and his potential. We had four miles and the best competition in the nation. We linked hands in the boat and committed ourselves to each other.

Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.

. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe. Our ordinary mind tells us this cannot be, there must be something more to it than this. It must surely be more "glorious", with light blazing in space around us, angels with flowing golden hair swooping down to meet us, and a deep Wizard of Oz voice announcing, "Now you have been introduced to the nature of your mind." There is no such drama.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

The moment I saw her again, I knew that it's gonna be more fun to live my life now.

There is only room for a certain amount of black actresses in this industry. I don't want to fall into the zone of playing the 'ghetto bootalicious baby mama drama.' I want to play something with depth, like a crackhead or something.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.