Drama Quotes - Page 37

• Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.

  Eddie Izzard

  Meals, Coke, Vitamins

  2004 In The Guardian, 17 May

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• Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these aspects. Game theory, so to speak, plays the board. It is concerned only with the logical aspects of strategy.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Games, Play, Boards

  "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 110), December 1962.

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• All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?

  Sam Shepard

  Father, Interesting, Long

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• No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  People, Matter, Costumes

  Los Angeles Magazine, Volume 44, No. 11, November 1999.

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• With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during their courtship. All their instincts of drama come out freshly with their wives. The artist is he in whom this emotionality normally absorbed by sex is so strong that it claims a newer and more exclusive field of deployment. Its first creation is the Artist himself, a new sort of person; the creative man.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Strong, Sex, Artist

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• The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Horse, Book, Character

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. Ocober 6, 2003.

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• I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.

  John C. Reilly

  Thinking, Joy, Trying

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• Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Heaven, Earth, Mask

  JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”

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• What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other art forms, most notably, the European novel and certain forms on English drama, and indeed, in relation to my rather academic interest in history -- not "history" in the normal sense, but history as a form of entertainment . It might be a very unfashionable view but I believe that history is an amazing bank or reserve area of plots, characterisations, extraordinary events, etc.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Believe, Views

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• I love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie. There's something about movies like these that make you feel so good and happy and that you want to live in that world -- to be that girl and be part of the fairy tale. I have always believed in fairy tales.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girl, Epic, Watches

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• 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.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Laughter, Character, Order

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• In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?

  Philip Zimbardo

  People, Evil, Greek

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• I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

  Kaitlyn

  People, Comedy, Switching

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• There should be a drama series about women trying to figure out their mystery leg bruises.

  Kelly Oxford

  Trying, Bruises, Legs

  Twitter post from Jun 02, 2014

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• I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing. I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Jobs, College, Dancing

  "Intense Ornate". Amazon.co.uk interview, 1999.

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• The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of plot, character, and language in absurdist drama. Order is a falsehood that we, God, those who came before us, have imposed on a random universe. However, the absurdist is confronted with a curious paradox: though he believes the Universe to be meaningless, he cannot abandon the search for meaning--or he will die.

  Walter Wykes

  Believe, Character, Order

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• When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners are often chosen to actualize certain potentialities for each other, and the unborn baby becomes party to their drama.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Baby, Party, Intimate Relationships

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2001). “Pregnancy: The Inside Story”, p.10, Karnac Books

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• To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not like drama critics, determining flops and successes. Criticism to scientists is just another means of finding out whether they're wrong, like running another experiment to see if it confirms or refutes a theory. Along with the advocacy principle of the courtroom, It is one of the best ways human beings have evolved to get closer to the truth.

  Martin Seligman

  Running, Mean, Reality

  "Learned Optimism". Book by Martin Seligman, 1991.

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• The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still have to find that emotional pitch. And when you do something in drama and you hear that sob from the audience it's so fulfilling. But as a comic actor, when the laugh is supposed to come and you punch in that line and nothing happens it is dreadful. It's horrific and you feel like dying right there.

  George Takei

  Real, Emotional, Laughing

  "IGN Interview: George Takei". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. May 1, 2007.

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• This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.

  Laura Antoniou

  Sex, People, Literature

  "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up (puckerup.com), Issue 1, p. 12, Winter 1995.

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• Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case - which didn't exactly fill me with confidence.

  Tamsin Greig

  Mother, Country, Fall

  "Tamsin Greig: Green Goddess". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. May 05, 2006.

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• The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

  Dannie Abse

  Identity, Theme, Mistaken

  1984 Journa lentry,Feb,collected in Journals from the Ant-Heap (1986).

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• Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.

  Arnold Aronson

  Running, Spring, War

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• In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?

  C. D. Innes

  Art, Hands, Play

  C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of these show show business ingredients than by dancing?

  Charles Walters

  Dancing, Important, Ingredients

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