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Quotes About Drama

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.
~ Jessica Raine
I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
~ Miles Teller
Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma.
~ Sarah Sutton
Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.
~ Steve Coogan
I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.
~ Ruth Wilson
To capture the drama of the unconscious, one had to start with the key, and the key was the dream. But the novelist's task was to pursue this dream, to unravel its meaning; the goal was to reach the relation of dream to life; the suspense was in finding this which led to a deeper significance of our acts.
~ Anais Nin
The important thing is to set the passion free. The drama is everything, the cause of the drama nothing.
~ Anais Nin
Su papel en la vida la tiene absorbida. Sé muy bien por qué: su belleza le acarrea dramas y acontecimientos. Las ideas significan poco. Vi en ella una caricatura de personaje teatral y dramático. Disfraz, actitudes, forma de hablar. Es una actriz soberbia. Sólo eso. No he podido llegar a su interior.
~ Anais Nin
I find that I do not know what to believe, that I have not decided yet whether analysis simplifies and undramatizes our existence, or whether it is the most subtle, the most insidious, the most magnificent way of making dramas more terrible, more maddening.
~ Anais Nin
The only drama that really interests me and that I should always be willing to depict anew, is the debate of the individual with whatever keeps him from being authentic, with whatever is opposed to his integrity, to his integration. Most often the obstacle is within him. And all the rest is merely accidental.
~ Andre Gide
Is there a bucket of blood hanging high in the auditorium rafters, waiting to be dropped
~ Andrew Sean Greer
She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
~ Ann Brashares
Don't let her sit near me, Mary Anne whispered. Can't you guys just kiss and make up? I asked. Ask Claudia. She's the one who decided not to talk to me. Well, you weren't exactly Miss Congealiality yourself. Gene. Congeniality. Whatever.
~ Ann M. Martin
thought for sure someone would screech or gasp or fall off the bed.
~ Ann M. Martin
Kristy had a cow.
~ Ann M. Martin
Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.
~ Samuel Johnson
Novel: A small tale, generally of love.
~ Samuel Johnson
This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious extasies, by reading human sentiments in human language; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
~ Samuel Johnson
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ella almost cried out in relief upon seeing him. Conrad released her hand and spun around to see who'd interrupted his bullying. "Afternoon
~ Sandra Brown
Chris cursed lavishly. He sped up, then shouted, "Hold on!" Less than a second later, he stamped on the
~ Sandra Brown
place—for that little chippy?
~ Sandra Brown
Right in front of God, Daddy, and everyone else in our family, she dropped to her knees and began giving Frank Darling light puffs of air, her lips sealed on his like the lid on a Mason jar of fresh canned peaches.
~ Sandra Chastain
At last he had risen to hold forth tragically about the misfortune that it was to be alive.
~ Sandra Newman