In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

I love a bit of drama. That’s a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.

Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It’s about character first. It’s about story. And for me, it’s about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

I’m a huge fan of the films of the ’70s and even into the ’80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people’s lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Steampunk is…the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it’s very different – the mindset that you’re in.

The diamond is a stage, and every player is an actor in the grand drama of baseball.

I’m staying with the cyclists but this has caused drama. The athletes keep saying I’ve changed sides but it wasn’t like that. It just worked out this way.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there’s been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there’s a certain feeling when you’re sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it’s just pure escapism and they’re happy.

All the gossip – I’m not about that at all. The drama.

Drama is not my passion. If I do it, it’s for a check. It’s not what I want to do. Comedy’s my thing. Stand up’s my thing. Everything that comes from that is frosting on the cake.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart’s drama and the negative meaning of history.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

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 secures a world wide fame princes well might envy.

I’ve been fortunate in that I’ve been able to have that balance as an actress to be able to do the wild, fun action movies and also be allowed to do the dramas. Hopefully, if I’m able to keep that balance, I’d love to always try to do both.

I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I’d never really been able to combine them

Oh, really? Well, my movie’s gonna make more money than your movie.

The more we share our stories— through words or pictures, music or drama— the kinder our world will be.