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Quotes About Drama

It is true Greek tragedy, with Chance as the ever ready hand-maid of Fate.
~ Winston S. Churchill
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice! Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
~ Winston S. Churchill
He (Napolean) was in love with himself and France joined in. It was a romance. Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
~ Unknown
?ycie pisze najbardziej oryginalne, najbardziej komiczne a jednocze?nie najbardziej dramatyczne scenariusze.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Drama is like meat and three veg. Whereas comedy is like the merangue at the end.
~ Woody Allen
I was crushed when Mia's plan worked, and the judge shilled for her to make sure I would not get to see Dylan.
~ Woody Allen
Dios (Una comedia) DORIS (filosóficamente: Las personas creen tantas veces comprender la realidad cuando no hacen otra cosa realmente que corresponder a su <>
~ Woody Allen
Oh, my play. It's about risk, taking chances. It's about a Jewish woman forced to make existential choices." "What's it called?" "Thus Spoke Sarah Shuster.
~ Woody Allen
Where did all these thirsty comics come from? I never knew a monologist to keel over from dehydration. Actors play hours of Shakespeare without Hamlet or Lear sneaking behind a drape for a belt of Poland Spring water.
~ Woody Allen
Goatley forms an acting group which performs avant-garde plays written in palindromes, but the group slowly peters out as the members start dying off of starvation.
~ Woody Allen
It is a very strong rule in drama, and in life, that people remain true to their basic natures. They change, and their change is essential for drama, but typically they only change a little, taking a single step towards integrating a forgotten or rejected quality into their natures.
~ Unknown
Although well played by Billy Zane, Cal in the screenplay is one of the weakest part of the design, and would have been a more effective rival if he were more seductive, a better match for Rose, real competition for Jack, and not such an obvious monster. Then it would have been a real contest, and not a one-sided match between the most attractive young man in the universe and a leering, abusive cad with a bag of money in one hand and a pistol in the other.
~ Unknown
We must all start with the believable. That is the essence of our craft. All drama, all comedy, all artistry stems from the believable, which gives us as solid a rock as anyone could ask from which to seek humor.
~ Chuck Jones
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
~ Cicero
A moment later, Cat hurtled back into the room as if chased by demons. She stationed herself in front of Raisa, a knife in either hand, all of her genteel patina swept away. "Cuffs! Look sharp! It's him, the whey-faced, gutter-swiving, prig-napping bastard! He's here!" Han looked as mystified as Raisa. " Who 's here?
~ Cinda Williams Chima
It escalates, as it always does. Who knows what the neighbours must think. Stuart yells, I scream, he throws my vase full of flowers at the wall so that it shatters into a zillion pieces, sending water and petals everywhere.
~ Unknown
I could see where I'd mistaken drama and conflict for life, which meant years of living reactively instead of generatively, a life I let be determined by circumstances and the choices of others. We like to think life happens to us, but pretty much everything in your life is there because you wanted it, even if unconsciously. Results, I have learned, don't lie.
~ Claire Fontaine
What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle.
~ Unknown
I feel like the wrath of God. You like that boy, don't you? I love him, Tom.
~ Clifford Odets
Buscar la verdad es la mayor virtud y es lo que hace que un drama sea interesante. No me interesa contar historias con perfume de rosas en las que todo va bien
~ Clint Eastwood
War pictures are always fascinating for people; they were for me growing up, even though I'm not nuts about war." "War is the ultimate conflict, and conflict is the basis of drama to begin with.
~ Clint Eastwood
Personally, I don't mind a good cry. In fact, if I cry while chopping onions, I'll run to the bathroom mirror and recite one of my favorite lines from Poltergeist: "Don't you touch my babies!!!" It's the part where the kids are being sucked into the bedroom closet for the second time and JoBeth Williams is at HER WIT'S END! It's very dramatic.
~ Clinton Kelly
Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.
~ Clive Owen