Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can’t layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it’s more difficult than drama – you don’t have so many tricks. – Grant Bowler
We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements. – George Pierce Baker
Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don’t want to waste time on drama beforehand. – Holly Holm
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. – Graeme Murphy
People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama. – Hilary Duff
Acted drama requires surrender of one’s self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. – George Pierce Baker
Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task. – Harold Pinter
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards. – Hugh Dancy
I went to uni and then drama school afterwards and lived in quite a few student houses. – Greg McHugh
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we’re going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical. – Hilary Mantel
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. – George Pierce Baker
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure. – George Pierce Baker
I couldn’t imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much. – Hugh Laurie
I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays. – Garry Hynes
Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be. – George Pierce Baker
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. – George Pierce Baker
No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given. – George Pierce Baker
I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama. – Greg Louganis
This is real human drama, we’re not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it’s got a real pathos behind it. – John C. Reilly
My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that. – Jeremy Irons
I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them. – Judy Garland
There’s something that goes on in a new-business meeting that’s wonderful to watch. It’s like showtime. There are people who are nervous, and there are people who are jittery, and there’s so much drama and so much at stake. – Jerry Della Femina
I remember before I did ‘Boston Public,’ I couldn’t get seen for drama. Once I’d done ‘Boston Public,’ I couldn’t get seen for a comedy. – Jessalyn Gilsig