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Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

I liked the drama of getting stoned.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.