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Quotes About Drama

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.
~ Ridley Scott
Some of the best scenes in drama take almost no time - helping to illustrate that life-changing events in real life often occur in a split second, after which nothing is ever the same.
~ Lionel Shriver
Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'
~ David Harsanyi
I've been spoilt with 'Emmerdale' over the years. I've had a taste of high drama, action, explosive scenes, emotional scenes and the odd bit of comedy with Bernice.
~ Kelvin Fletcher
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.
~ Hilary Mantel
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
~ Tommy Manville
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
~ Lord Byron
When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.
~ Pauline Kael
All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.
~ Robert Byron
This is a perfect pair - he's a hypochondriac and she's a pill.
~ Anonymous
Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.
~ George Balanchine
The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.
~ Harold Hayes
In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.
~ Okakura Kakuzo
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
~ Robert Burns
We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.
~ Carl Jung
WHOAAAA. THERE GOES CODY RHOOOOODESSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. What's up, man?
~ John Cena
Oh, god!" Carl Hollywood said, and collapsed into a big, tatty, overstuffed chair they kept backstage for such purposes.
~ Neal Stephenson
Just like many Popish Plotters before them, these had promptly begun to "commit suicide" in the Tower. One had even managed the heroic feat of cutting his own throat all the way to the vertebrae!
~ Neal Stephenson
Doxan Iconography?" "A Praxic Age moving picture serial. An adventure drama about a military spaceship sent to a remote part of the galaxy to prevent hostile aliens from establishing hegemony, and marooned when their hyperdrive is damaged in an ambush. The captain of the ship was passionate, a hothead. His second-in-command was Dox, a theorician, brilliant, but unemotional and cold.
~ Neal Stephenson
I remember the Pharisees from Jesus Christ, Superstar. They were the ones with the deep voices who were always hassling Christ.
~ Neal Stephenson
Tiny places have all the drama and beauty necessary for a universe.
~ Ned Vizzini
How will I know the difference?" "Wounds bring drama and trauma. They don't bring comfort.
~ Neil Strauss
By now, the three assholes were probably running out the back door and heading around both sides of the house to outflank
~ Nelson DeMille
The 1789 Revolution had given the French a political script of unequalled drama. For the better part of the following century the temptation to reenact the play was irresistible.
~ Niall Ferguson