Acting Quote by Michael Shurtleff

Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

— Michael Shurtleff

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself,…

— Anonymous

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the…

— Arthur Miller

If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then…

— Damian Lewis

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

— Peter Brook

Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is…

— George Bernard Shaw

That's what acting is, it's exploring conflict.

— David Koechner

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of…

— Tom Stoppard

In a drama, you're always looking for things to create conflict with.

— Gareth Evans

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

— Anonymous

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the…

— David Schwimmer

There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something…

— Clive Owen