Cat Stevens Quotes

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

I like a drama.

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.

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

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

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

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.

Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.

The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.

It is not about being a hero or a villain; I want to be a solid and passionate actor.

Good drama must be drastic.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

The bad guys are the best parts.

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