Oscar Wilde Writer “JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.” Home Girl Drama ♥ 3
Oscar Wilde Writer “The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.” Play Literature Drama ♥ 3
Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker “With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.” Trying Reality Drama ♥ 3
Lawrence Wright Author, Journalist “Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.” Book Drama ♥ 3
KL Katie Leung Actress “I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.” Running School Drama ♥ 3
George A. Romero Filmmaker “It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract and allusive with horror, and it's very forgiving to the author. You don't necessarily have to take an absolutely positive position. You can just write whatever.” Writing Drama Forgiving ♥ 3
Nick Frost Actor “A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.” People Sound Drama ♥ 3
George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic “Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.” Men Real Drama ♥ 3
George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic “A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.” Fun Taken Drama ♥ 3
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.” Character Drama Creating ♥ 3
George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist “When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.” Thinking Drama Foam ♥ 3
Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor “All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.” Different Drama Events ♥ 3
