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Quotes About Drama

and deeply seductive, storytelling tropes that you see in cinema.
~ David Brin
Each of us remains convinced that our own subjective viewpoint is more urgent than anyone else's—indeed, even more valid than the objective matrix that underlies so-called reality. After all, the subjective view is a grand theater. Each of us gets to be hero of an ongoing drama. It's why ideologies and bigotries survive against all evidence or logic.
~ David Brin
Learn to find humor in the unending emotional drama the feminine seems to enjoy so much.
~ David Deida
Either you are living as love or you are lost in the drama of your own story to one degree or another.
~ David Deida
Now what?" Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. "Am I disturbing your Majesty?" Prala asked. "…You always disturb me, my beloved," he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.
~ David Eddings
The jokes theory was there's no audience and no director and no stage or set because, The Mad Stork and his cronies argued, in Reality there are none of these things. And the protagonist doesn't know he's the protagonist in a Found Drama because in Reality nobody thinks they're in any sort of Drama.
~ David Foster Wallace
The joke's theory was there's no audience and no director and no stage or set because, The Mad Stork and his cronies argued, in Reality there are none of these things. And the protagonist doesn't know he's the protagonist in a Found Drama because in Reality nobody thinks they're in any sort of Drama.
~ David Foster Wallace
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop
~ William Saroyan
A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
~ William Shakespeare
The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
~ William Shakespeare
I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
~ William Shakespeare
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
~ William Shakespeare
Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
~ William Shakespeare
And what's he then that says I play the villain?
~ William Shakespeare
O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.
~ William Shakespeare
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
~ William Shakespeare
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
~ William Shakespeare
We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2
~ William Shakespeare
Totus mundus agit histrionem. (All the World's a Stage.) [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]
~ William Shakespeare
Let me play the lion too: I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me. I will roar that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again, let him roar again.
~ William Shakespeare
That he's mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis, 'tis true —a foolish figure
~ William Shakespeare
O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die
~ William Shakespeare
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
~ William Shakespeare
Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*
~ William Shakespeare