John Ross Bowie Quotes

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

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling.

Great theater continues to bind us, one to the other, and most of us will travel far and wide to see a good story told well.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

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

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

Drama sells.

We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.