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Quotes About Drama

The Plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy.
~ Aristotle
Every Tragedy, therefore, must have six parts, which parts determine its quality--namely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song.
~ Aristotle
But most important of all is the structure of the incidents. For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action.
~ Aristotle
Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.
~ ARNOLD ARONSON
Now all of a sudden there was joy, there was struggle, there was pain, there was happiness, there were pleasures, there were women, there was drama. Everything made it feel like "now we are really living!
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
The reason why most absurdist plays take place in a no man's land with only two characters is mainly financial.
~ Arthur Adamov
It was Strindberg, or more exactly, A Dream Play, that incited me to write for the theater.
~ Arthur Adamov
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
~ Bob Woodward
I thought 'The Bank Job' was a really quality movie.
~ Jason Statham
I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.
~ Kathryn Hahn
LeBron is a great player and a great guy, but he's a drama queen.
~ Charles Barkley
Devin's a drama queen.
~ Jason McCourty
I am a drama queen!
~ Parineeti Chopra
David Haye is a drama queen and I don't know why more attention is being given to a drama queen but the show must go on.
~ Dereck Chisora
My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
~ Mallory Jansen
Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
~ Parker Posey
I am known as the gossip queen on sets!
~ Sanjeeda Sheikh
I have played queens on screen in the past.
~ Rohini Hattangadi
'Scream Queens' is its own reality.
~ Glen Powell
In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.
~ Jeremy Podeswa
I'm really proud of 'Private Life.' It's about a marriage and a couple on the hunt to make a family by any means necessary. They're on such an obsessive quest that, after awhile, you forget that it's even for a baby. It fits right in that middle pocket of being a comedy and a drama.
~ Kathryn Hahn
Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.
~ Lydia Leonard
Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.
~ Chuck Palahniuk