Drama Quotes - Page 35

• The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reading, Doctrine, World

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Real, Years, Play

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.27-28), 1991.

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• Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

  Christiane Northrup

  Mean, Opportunity, Worry

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• I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that they know by heart, and I never had that. I've done Chekov and I've done Moliere and I've done classic stuff

  Tavis Smiley

  Heart, School, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Laughing, Comedy, Expecting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Girl, School, Class

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Adults, Actors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

  Sarah Silverman

  Thinking, Comedian, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wife, Mistress, Boisterous

  "Memories of Chekhov: Accounts of the Writer from His Family, Friends and Contemporaries". Book by Peter Sekirin, September 30, 2011.

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• One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

  Glenn Howerton

  Play, Television, Entertainment

  "EXCLUSIVE: Glenn Howerton Reminds Us Why It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 05, 2007.

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• I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  School, Kids, Actors

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2010.

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• The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player

  Anthony Greenwald

  Past, Player, Self

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• I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Character, People, Perception

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• When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.

  James N. Frey

  Character, Goal, Different

  James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.

  Timothy Leary

  Mind, Vision, Tunes

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”, p.7, Ronin Publishing

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• You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes.

  Doris Lessing

  Taken, Eye, Player

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• It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

  Roger Ebert

  School, Class, Roles

  Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.542, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Sky, Entertainment

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.64, Oxford University Press

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• The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Mean, Errors

  Richard Wagner (1966). “Prose works”

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• All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Successful, Play, Detectives

  Eugene Ionesco (2015). “Amedee, The New Tenant, Victims of Duty: Three Plays”, p.79, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?

  Chinua Achebe

  Book, Writing, Play

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.83, Anchor

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• In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result ... to inform or to confuse? How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Doe, Ongoing, Action

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you couldn't, if you were just doing a drama. It lets you maybe reach a little further and surprise people a little bit more because there's still that little safety base of working on that genre that everybody loves.

  Rian Johnson

  People, Safety, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't care if you hate me or if you like me, as long as somebody gives me a character that is really a character to play. It's fun to be able to have a character and have a director that can direct you into a character. I'm just so happy that I got a good role. I don't care if it's bad or if it's good, and I don't care if it's drama or comedy. They are just so rare to come across.

  Salma Hayek

  Fun, Hate, Character

  "Blake Lively and Salma Hayek Talk About SAVAGES, Slapping and Spitting on Benicio del Toro, and Swearing in Spanish". Interview, collider.com. July 3, 2012.

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• It's funny because when I was growing up, I was really into science fiction and fantasy as a kid. And, when I first became a screenwriter, I ended up really just doing historical drama and non-fiction based stuff, like Band of Brothers and stuff that didn't get made, but was also non-fiction.

  John Orloff

  Brother, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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