Actress Quote by Patricia Neal

“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the eyes or…

— Riley Redgate

The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

— Curt Flood

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

— Billy Joel

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

— Brendan Coyle

“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that…

— Helen Clark MacInnes

Everything that I play as an actress is a different aspect of me.

— Virginia Madsen

“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have…

— Oscar Wilde

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to…

— Martha Nussbaum

I've always said that I don't necessarily feel stereotypically Greek.

— Jamie Demetriou

Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue…

— Simon Van Booy