Quotes About Drama

It's unthinkable, it's horrible!" She turned her eyes directly into his. "I'd rather you were dead!" she exclaimed, her voice like a hammer striking a nail.

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day.

We are actors on life's stage. Our challenge is to find the real play, and our true roles.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

It is strange, you think, how much people hate going to doctors, but how much they love watching shows about doctors.

Yes," said the cop. "It wasn't anyone's fault." "People like to say that," A.J. replies. "But it was someone's fault. It was hers. What a stupid thing for her to do. What a stupid melodramatic thing for her to do. What a goddamn Danielle Steel move, Nic! If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.

It is always hard to leave a home a drama a way of life a life. So I sat there warm and safe that night held by the sea and a good man and my own good fortune victim and witness to all the transitory sweetness like Gatsby's dreams that stood before and behind me.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh...

With a book—presuming it's a good book—you can depend upon an outcome that adheres to the necessities of drama. The question will be answered. It has to be. The answer may not be happy; we can't guarantee a comedy. Sometimes tragedy strikes. But there will be a conclusion. Of that we can be sure. That's the whole point of a book.

With a book—presuming it's a good book—you can depend upon an outcome that adheres to the necessities of drama.

Vedno sem neznansko užival v pripovednem zapeljevanju.Priznam, vše? mi je dramati?nost. Dobra zgodba mora vedno nastaviti pri?akovanja in jih razburljivo in presenetljivo zavla?evati.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but would they have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

Our sense of a composition largely inheres in how we feel about the individual parts; narrative arcs are almost always essential in drama but (unless there are lyrics involved) often less essential in music. All of this is, I suspect, again symptomatic of human memory limitations. We live, to a remarkable degree, in the present; what happened thirty seconds ago is already rapidly fading from our memory (or at least rapidly becomes harder for us to retrieve).

She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!

Les Enfants Terribles [The Terrible Children].

That looked like an intense little conversation," she said. "Who called?" "President of the United States," he answered, starting the engine. "Okay, fine," Cori sighed. "Don't tell me.

Sometimes I look at this world and it moves me to tears. The joy and terror and the mad bloody drama of it all. I wonder why they never seem to really see it. Maybe one lifetime just isn't enough. Or maybe it's too much. I can't say. But the truth, to be perfectly plain, is that people are always looking for magic in all the wrong places.

Click click, bang. Curtains close, and ... scene. Type 'The End'. None

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.