#drama

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#because #comedy #critic #dramatic #exacting

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#back #because #being #direction #dramatic

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#achieved #anything #drama #feel #feelings

Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic? ↗

— Norah Jones

#breaking up #complicated #did #distance #dramatic

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#drama #find #how #i #i think

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#audience #colors #context #dramatic #i

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#dramatic role #equal #playing #role #same

I don't think I could write a straight drama. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#drama #i #straight #think #write

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#awards #comedy #consideration #deserving #drama

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#church #dramatic #found #i #literature