Quotes About Drama

You make mountains out of molehills.

But here Billy Chope arrived to demand what the 'ell Sam Cardew was doing with his gal. Now Sam was ever readier for a fight than Billy was; but the sum of Billy's half pints was large: wherefore the fight began. On the skirt of a hilarious ring Lizerunt, after some small outcry, triumphed aloud. Four days before, she had no bloke; and here she stood with two, and those two fighting for her! Here in the public gaze, on the Flats! For almost five minutes she was Helen of Troy.

History in live performance.

My life has a superb cast, but I can't figure out the plot.

The cops then arrived and he fled in his car, leading them on a chase that ended in the massive crash.

Their story drew a heated response.

Unless we develop some cohesive vision of that world in which we hope these children will participate, and some sense of our own responsibilities in the shaping of that world, we will only raise new performers in the master's sorry drama.

Here come the guests. Keep calm, now, and we'll go on playing our old roles.

handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

I mean, handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

To nobody's surprise, steroid use is common among gay men. When you combine a love for men with a love for drama, you end up with a guy on steroids.

She's an excellent presenter and would have succeeded in advertising, is what I think. She generates a sense of excitement in the room and I become aware that my hands are moist with sweat, but not from fear. From needing to know what happened next. I like the drama. I glance around the room and other people look rapt as well. And I feel like, That's the reason to go to a gay rehab. People appreciate the drama.

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution. ~ Augusto Boal

Certainly, all of us at Callahan's were heir to the tradition of the B-movie — and the A-movie for that matter — that any female who enters your life in a dramatic manner must be your fated love.

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act".

Acting is reacting.

And that's my point, Richard stated. Do you remember when you stood there, in a ballroom or whatever, and watched her stalk off - and wondered what the hell was going on?

CUNNINGHAM: Your Honor, Defense reconjures Satan to the stand. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Lou, you can come in now … Bailiff! Go fetch him! Go fetch Satan! BAILIFF: Alone? JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Go!

MARY MAGDALENE: I also knew Judas Iscariot very well. SAINT MONICA: Gangsta!

Fill in the blanks, you'd have a novel; keep it short and it's a play by Beckett.

We have 18 or 19 plays by Euripides, for example, yet he is known to have written almost 100. Only 7 of Aeschylus's 80 remain, while just 7 plays of Sophocles have come down to us out of 120 known titles. Almost every character you come across when reading the Greek myths had a play about them written by one, other, or all three of the great Athenian masters. The loss of so many of their works might be regarded as the greatest Greek tragedy of them all.

Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday.

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.

How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!