The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.

The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

I'm a drama guy.

I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

I'm doing music, and we both want to do some drama.

If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.

I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no.