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Quotes About Drama

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
~ Ambrose Bierce
People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.
~ Anthony Mackie
Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.
~ Ben Folds
There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today's life.
~ Matthew Weiner
I often feel that my life, much like my shows, will end on a cliffhanger.
~ Mike Judge
My life really has been one long extravaganza.
~ Noel Coward
... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.
~ Robin Morgan
I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.
~ Topher Grace
I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.
~ Tina Yothers
It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.
~ Vanessa Hudgens
A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.
~ Alyce Cornyn-Selby
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
~ John Updike
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!
~ Dziga Vertov
In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.
~ E. Lockhart
But he talked like the kisses were sort of a joke, merely something fun to do so as not to waste the beauty of the evening and the drama of the landscape. pg. 91
~ E. Lockhart
It doesn't matter if one of us is desperately, desperately in love. So much in love, that equally desperate measures must be taken
~ E. Lockhart
Johnny leapt off the boat and threw his own vest on the dock. First thing, he ran up to Mirren and kicked her. Then he kicked me. Kicked the twins. Walked over to our grandparents and stood up straight. "Good to see you, Granny and Granddad. I look forward to a happy summer.
~ E. Lockhart
La tragedia no es glamurosa
~ E. Lockhart
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
~ E. M. Forster
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
~ E.M. Cioran
Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish tother from which.
~ E.M. Forster
Don't act. Or act better.
~ E.M. Forster
At Philippi, Bunny, where I said I'd see him. What a rabbit you are at a quotation! "'And I think that the field of Philippi Was where Cæsar came to an end; But who gave old Brutus the tip, I Can't comprehend!' "You may have forgotten your Shakespeare, Bunny, but you ought to remember that.
~ E.W. Hornung