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I'm a drama guy.

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

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.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.