#Drama

"I need drama in my life to keep making music."

"I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama."

"Some people insist on inviting me to their drama buffet... No thanks! My soul hungers for nourishment and growth; it doesn't lust for poison and depletion."

"If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it."

"The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy."

"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."

"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."

"In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor."

"If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled."

"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created."

"Rogerson,"I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea,"he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints."

"If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it."

"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."

"'Hill Street,' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor."

"Your mother won a special reward,"she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."

"I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama."

"Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with."

"It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama."

"Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces."

"Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth."