Quotes About Drama

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

Creating a scene is thus the staging of a desire.

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

How are you to get up the sympathies of the audience in a legitimate manner, if there isn't a little man contending against a big one?

When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.

Martin Scorcese, the film director, was once asked the secret to a good scene. "Put three people in a room," he said.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

It's fine, Mr. Marlow. I'm used to it. About twenty years of people looking at me with . . . with those eyes. 'From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept a hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death,' " she said in a purposefully deepened and dramatic voice. She was speaking loudly, louder than Jade had heard her speak before.

The whole drama of pandemic created is to sell medicine, vaccines, ppe, ventilators etc and profit healthcare people.

En tono melodramático de telenovela venezolana se despidió entre lágrimas de sus padres, de sus hermanos y de su novia.

La semana santa propicia despliegues de teatralidad insulsa, tan cara al alma mexicana y a sus conflictos esenciales: la madre gime porque su hijo está en problemas, y los hijos sangran porque los abandonó su padre.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

En una novela es muy cómodo el recurso de hacer morir a los personajes cuando tienen herido el corazón y produce dramático efecto; pero en la vida real eso no sucede, aunque perezca a su alrededor cuanto le hacía querer la vida.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

People are always in various stages of different dramas when you encounter them: freshly embarked on some, halfway or more through others. One is always approaching the denouement of this or that subplot of one's life. And you, the stranger, entering the picture in all your blundering innocence, may well be the catalyst for some long-awaited climax.

I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from the shade, reminding us that we're actors in the same drama they have already lived and that they can help us with our lives if we will only let them.

The sky was black, creaking with electricity, like someone crumpling cellophane.

I ripped her. I shoved my hand in her blouse and jerked. She was wide open from her throat to her belly. "You got that climbing out. You caught it in the door handle." My voice sounded queer, like it was coming out of a tin phonograph. "And this you don't know how you got." I hauled off and hit her in the eye as hard as I could.

Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.