1,605 Quotes About Drama

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe.

Physicality is the basis of performance.

The second he slipped inside of me, all I'd doubted, questioned, or feared evaporated, leaving me with one single, definite truth--I'd fallen in love with him in an all-consuming blaze that would blind me if I wasn't careful. We fit together like poorly cut puzzle pieces, but when the edges joined and were positioned just right, our scattered images came together to create a solid, deliberate piece of art, completely crystal clear and in focus. I was a goner.

How could we explain that standing on a stage and speaking someone else's words as if they are your own is less an act of bravery than a desperate lunge at mutual understanding? An attempt to forge that tenuous link between speaker and listener and communicate something, anything, of substance.

Adolescence feeds on drama, it is most happy when living in extremis, and Ferguson was no less vulnerable to the lure of high emotion and extravagant unreason than any other boy his age ...

As an actor, you trick and abuse your emotions, bringing pain up only to have to shove it back down when you hear, 'CUT!' I believe acting, dramatic acting, is a form of self-abuse. Take after take of pulling up dark emotions only to seal them up when camera stops rolling...

Actors--a stage kiss is only meant to last ten seconds. Any longer and it is considered abuse, dear.

An actor does not figure out how to say the lines that are written for a character. An actor figures out why a character says the lines.

People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of what they say, to get to what they truly feel. That's what good literature is all about-- what Austen did better than anyone.