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Quotes About Drama

I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.
~ Fred Rogers
If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and fascinating all the time. Real life is like that from time to time.
~ Hank Phillippi Ryan
The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.
~ Gore Vidal
It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.
~ James Toback
After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
~ Khaled Hosseini
That's the thing I loved about drag queens, life was a constant movie; no matter how ridiculously things didn't match they would sacrifice everything for the pose, and I was definitely into the pose.
~ Mary Woronov
I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.
~ Thomas Jane
I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.
~ Patsy Kensit
As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.
~ Lysette Anthony
I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
~ Uma Thurman
Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?
~ Margaret Carlson
Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."
~ Ricky Gervais
Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
~ E. M. Forster
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
~ Jonathan Swift
I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.
~ Kurt Busiek
My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.
~ Mort Sahl
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
~ Oscar Wilde
Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
~ Simon Beaufoy
My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
~ Zachary Levi
Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
~ Alexandre Dumas
I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.
~ Alexis Bledel
I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.
~ Amy Seimetz
I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
~ Ang Lee