George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

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

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

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.

I like a drama.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

'Beauty Queen' will always be a favourite because I think it's a really tight play, and when it's done right, there is a sadness to it that I love.

The essence to me of all good drama is argument.

The theatre is a world in itself. The possibility for creating experiences that move people is increased many times over. In the end, the best stories are usually about a battle of good over evil - that has never changed.

Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people.

There's enough Situation to go around.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

'Rakta Charitra' was more about human conflict than politics.

I was exposed to acting at a young age. I was very lucky to grow up in that environment.