"When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature."

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"When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature."

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"It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama."

Sean Penn, American Actor

Drama, Nothing

"Exaggerating Your Gestures"Have you ever walked through a door and been jumped on by an over-enthusiastic dog with big paws who practically knocked you down? Some people have that effect. Being too flamboyant and over-boisterous can be overkill and push people away. Drama queens and kings have mastered these exaggerations, much to the chagrin of their observers. Remaining intentional in your gestures is a mark of poise, elegance, and maturity."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Drama, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Social

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

Jeremy Northam, English Actor

Drama, Memories

"In fact-Dr. Sheppard!"

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Drama, Medical, Authority, Respect, Confirmation

"We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, Participation, Observation

"Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?"

Montserrat Caballe, Spanish Musician

Drama,

"So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department."

James Earl Jones, American Actor

Drama,

"Having second thoughts? Puck's voice was soft and dangerous, a far cry from his normal flippancy. "I thought we put this behind us for now."Never, I said, matching his stare. "I can't ever take it back, Goodfellow. I'm still going to kill you. I swore to her I would. Lighting flickered overhead, and thunder rumbled in the distance as we faced each other with narrowed eyes. "One day, I said softly. "One day you'll look up, and I'll be there. That's the only ending for us. Don't ever forget."

Julie Kagawa, American Author

Drama, Promise, Emotion, Conflict, Determination

"And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!"

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Drama, Kindness, Humanity, Gratitude, Punishment

"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."

Edward Albee, American Dramatist

Drama, Today

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"In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results."

Choice, Drama, Freedom, Listening

"The drama is a great revealer of life."

Life, Drama

"When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature."

Drama, Literature, Play

"There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience."

Comedy, Difference, Tragedy

"Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be."

Drama,

"In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action."

Action, Play, Reading

"Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation."

Past, Practice, Present

"In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending."

Character, Ending, Today

"Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else."

Being,

"Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama."

Civilization, Action, Drama, Pleasure