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Quotes About Drama

There's enough drama in my life whether I want it or not. There's enough going on right now to keep my head spinning all the time.
~ Bob Mould
I certainly did plays in high school and community theater, and I want to get back on the stage.
~ Busy Philipps
I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.
~ Carey Mulligan
Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.
~ Clarke Peters
I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.
~ Derek Jacobi
A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.
~ Dick Van Dyke
We do naught but scratch the world, frail and fraught. Every vast drama of civilizations, of peoples with their certainties and gestures, means nothing, affects nothing. Life crawls on, ever on. She wondered if the gift of revelation—of discovering the meaning underlying humanity—offered nothing more than a devastating sense of futility.
~ Steven Erikson
In real life we avoid crisis events. In fiction we seek them out.
~ Steven James
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.
~ Steven Seagal
Everyone in the world has a part to play in the great drama of life.
~ Storm Constantine
An urge to laugh fought to express itself in Pharinet's narrow chest. Everna looked so dramatic, all wild eyes, hawk nose, and flailing hair.
~ Storm Constantine
I was hamming it up so much you could virtually taste the salad too.
~ Storm Constantine
Albert Camus said of the Spanish struggle: It is now nine years that men of my generation have had Spain within their hearts. Nine years that they have carried it with them like an evil wound. It was in Spain that men learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many men, the world over, regard the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.
~ stuart christie
A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.
~ Stuart Hill
You can't save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don't appreciate your interfering with the drama they've created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don't want to change.
~ Sue Grafton
Everyone's life is an unfolding story, and all stories have good guys and bad guys, and all stories have conflicts and resolutions, and all stories--if they are interesting--have drama.
~ Sue Halpern
stories are not just in books or movies. Everyone's life is an unfolding story, and all stories have good guys and bad guys, and all stories have conflicts and resolutions, and all stories--if they are interesting--have drama.
~ Sue Halpern
Release Lady Mirabelle and the kitten or I'll run you through, skewering your belly, pinching out your life.
~ Sue-Ellen Welfonder
Need, Public Persona, and Tragic Flaw are the bedrock of a fictional character's dramatic life, and the foundation of the actor's own life.
~ Susan Batson
Big moments, you've got to let it soak in. It actually adds to the drama so you don't throw away the move and the moment.
~ Ricky Steamboat
On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!
~ Chandler Massey
Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.
~ William Devane
'Bleak House' is like the best soap you could ever hope to watch.
~ Denis Lawson
So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.
~ Joan Van Ark