Quotes About Drama

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

For love I make characters in plays.

My hunch is that Sylvia Plath was not Especially fun company. A drama queen, thin-skinned, And skittery, she thought her poems were ordinary.

Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls.

Greeks heard the poems read on stage while a group of dancers performed. Then a clever poet called Aeschylus came along and had a great idea. He put a second reader on stage. Now you had a 'play' –the first drama in the world.

Now they were audience, waiting for the actors on the other side of the glass to begin their drama.

If you love somebody, you have to share this stuff in your head. If you are loved back, it is unconditional to receive. You have a massive life decision to make as to whether you want be in the life and family where all this drama happens, but of course, if love prevails, there is no decision to be made. I never asked if it was too much for Linda, and she never said so.

I'd lived all along as if I was acting out some turbulent drama; then I woke up one day and found I'd stopped believing in the play

This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied out drama of manners. Every man is in himself all humanity, and if he writes what occurs to him he succeeds better than if he copies, with the help of a magnifying glass, objects placed outside of him.

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

Eleven : *walks up to mike* Mike : 0-0 Eleven : I DUMP YOUR ASS. Mike : *surprised, sad, taken aback, broken-hearted, and a bunch of other negative feelings*

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.

An actor or actress in politics is very dangerous because politics exaggerate the native dramatic instinct with the intoxication of substantive command.

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

The essential value of spectator sports lies in their capacity to illustrate, in a dramatic way, the process of human goal-achievement. They do this by making the process shorter, simpler, and more visually exciting than it is in daily life--and by giving us heroes to admire.

It is always pleasant to divulge a secret under dramatic circumstances.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.