Quotes About Drama

A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

The men performed their roles like actors trapped in a morality play

Elara reached over, picked up a folder from her desk, and held it in front of her so only her eyes were visible. What are you doing? Waiting for your head to explode. I don't want to miss it, but I don't want to be splattered with gore.

Look what the cat dragged in." He was playing to the audience. Never good. "Is he talking to me or you?" Curran asked. His voice was deceptively light. "I don't know," I said. "But I'm sure he'll get around to telling us.

Jesu, Helen, turn the horses!

If I have to murder Hugh, I don't want to do it naked," he said. "It would be weird.

Well," Caldenia said. "Nobody can say that this siege is boring.

Mom?" Mother turned to Grandmother. "What?" "She's going to lunch with her kidnapper!" "Take a picture for me," Grandma said.

She looked at Mad Rogan. What did you do? Mad Rogan opened his mouth. She turned to me. What did he do? He got hit by a car, I said. The woman turned to me. What kind of car was it? An armored Escalade, I said. Well, at least it was a nice car. She turned to Mad Rogan. Who would want to ruin their nice car by hitting you with it?

Have you ever tried making a mess, Catalina?" "I don't make messes, I clean them up." And now I was sounding like a renegade detective from some edgy cop drama. Alessandro shuddered. "Ooh, so hardcore.

I'm formally proposing. The first time it didn't take. Kill me, somebody. Curran! Get Up. People are looking at us.

Women usually respond well to drama and decisive declarations of lust." "I'm not that sort of a woman. Unfortunately for you, I'm not for sale.

They are coming here for the arbitration, and they will probably try to murder each other the moment they walk through the door." Caldenia's eyes widened. "Do you really think so? This is absolutely marvelous!" She would think so, wouldn't she?

When he finds out who I'm going to marry, he'll have an aneurysm. His head will explode. It's good that he's a doctor, maybe he can treat himself.

The garlic bread!' Rosemary cried.

I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!')

I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre apes the profound truth that we are extended beings who yet can only exist in the present.

It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.

I said, Your brother is in bed with my wife. I added, I just took them up some wine in bed.

I went on seeing him, but it was like acting in some nightmarish play.

It occurred to me as scandalous that Palmer and Antonia, after the scene in which I had taken part in the drawing-room, should have gone out to the opera. Antonia ought to have been waiting for me to come back. I resented this indifference to the tempo of my own drama.

As he rose to go and held Louise's hand and gazed at her he felt for a moment his old love for her taking possession of his whole being. They looked at each other. I feed upon this looking, thought Clement, but does she? I don't know, and I cannot ask. I am terrified of saying something which would wound our whole precious relationship. We are well as we are. I love her, that's all, that is my drama.

You are always wanting other people to act in some drama which you have invented.

There's a certain drama in going down in a good cause. Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while the angels sing. But, -Dr. Lamont, to do that one has to have a fighting chance. One has to have something to fight for that may— justmay— win out.