#Drama

"Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

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

"Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be."

"Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment."

"When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway."

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

"The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately."

"I can't go on, I'll go on."

"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."

"'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."