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Quotes About Drama

While the content of many dreams seem haphazard, others are remarkably well structured; these dreams have a remarkable resemblance to drama.
~ Carl Sagan
I'm a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry's poetry. It doesn't have to be called a poem, you know.
~ Tennessee Williams
Zedd leaned forward eagerly, cutting him off. "Can you command the wind?" Richard leaned back a little. "Of course I can," he said, playing along. He held both hands up to the sky. "Come to me, brother wind! Gather about! Blow a gale for me!" He spread his arms dramatically. Kahlan wrapped her cloak around herself expectantly. Zedd looked about. Nothing happened. The two of them seemed a little disappointed.
~ Terry Goodkind
She folded her arms and then shouted, Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats! Oh, waily, waily, it's the foldin' o' the arms, the foooldin' o' the aaaarmss! cried Daft Wullie, dropping to the ground and trying to cover himself with leaves. Around him Feegles started to wail and cower and Big Yan began to bang his head on the rear wall of the dairy.
~ Terry Pratchett
You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines... or you can be outside it, and know how the script works, where the scenery hangs, and where the trapdoors are.
~ Terry Pratchett
The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.
~ Terry Pratchett
Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost
~ Terry Pratchett
A screaming vampire is always the centre of attention.
~ Terry Pratchett
She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and letting her glance fall naturally on a patch of earth which, if she had been in any decent narrative, should have contained the book. It didn't.
~ Terry Pratchett
OH. DRAMA. Oh, hell.
~ Terry Pratchett
Life's little ironies are not always manifest. We hear distant rumbling sounds of its tragedies, but rarely are we permitted to witness the reality. (from W.L.S.)
~ Theodore Dreiser
I want to do a film like 'Jolly LLB' or something in that space.
~ Varun Sharma
Pay-Per-View is run by drama. It is. It's true. I've done the research for myself. You look at Jon Jones. When Jon Jones fought Machida, probably did about $200,000, $300,000. When he fought Cormier, they made, like, $875,000.
~ Demetrious Johnson
I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.'
~ Eric McCormack
As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.
~ Andrew Ross Sorkin
I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
~ Zachary Knighton
That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.
~ James McAvoy
If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.
~ Denis Leary
The shields were enormous. In 'Julius Caesar,' I died early in the scene and used to fall asleep under the shield until I was woken up by applause.
~ Roger Rees
I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.
~ Daniela Bobadilla
I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.
~ Ashton Sanders
I never went to drama school, but I was really lucky in that both my junior school and secondary school had brilliant drama departments.
~ Lucy Boynton
I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.
~ Lili Simmons
I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.
~ Richard Foreman