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Quotes About Drama

Néanmoins, en 1819, époque à laquelle ce drame commence, il s'y trouvait une pauvre jeune fille. En quelque discrédit
~ Honore de Balzac
Ezek a penziólakók lezajlott vagy még zajló drámákat éreztettek; nem rivaldafényben, festett vásznak közt játszódó drámákat, hanem él? és néma drámákat, fagyos drámákat, amelyek forrón megdobogtatják a szívet, és sohasem múlnak el egészen.
~ Honore de Balzac
For if human, or superhuman, experience, and the tragic clash of personality can be expressed by plastic shapes, then one might half believe that these tortured trees had been bent by the wind into the spiritual shape of some old drama.
~ Unknown
So you are the brash young lover returned from the dead?" the Frenchman finally said. "And you are the devoted fiance returned from the card room," Robert shot back...
~ Unknown
Let a play have five acts, neither more nor less.
~ Horace
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.
~ Horace Walpole
There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.
~ Howard Cosell
I have a plot, but not much happens.
~ Howard Nemerov
As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
~ Hugh Jackman
My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.
~ Hugh Jackman
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
~ Hugh Laurie
Nous avons échangé des civilités. Mi-scénario hollywodien, mi-bonne société. Elle a commencé à hurler, puis essayé de me mordre la main.
~ Hugh Laurie
We are also the players in a cosmic drama acted out before the heavenly hosts. In that play, "every act of faith by every one of the people of God is like the tolling of a bell, and a faith like Job's reverberates throughout the universe.
~ Unknown
They could never quite reconcile themselves to the idea that our lives don't follow the dramatic arc that a good author gives to a great literary character. Only in accidents of pure perfection does the world actually become a stage." (Rule of Four, 54-55)
~ Ian Caldwell
I looked back towards them, to see if they were watching me, and saw her pulling her arm from his grip. Her eyes were closed and her hair was all over the places and her face was screwed up.
~ Unknown
When we started shooting New Jack City in April of 1990, I wasn't nervous anymore; I was fucking scared. Chris Rock was, too. We had a lot of heavy, dramatic scenes to pull off and we were both feeling the pressure.
~ Unknown
real. The art of filmmaking is being able to eliminate all the bullshit and repetitiveness of real life for the sake of telling a smooth, clear story.
~ Unknown
El destino de cada individuo encaja -invariablemente- con el destino de otro, siendo cada cual héroe de su propio drama mientras figura, simultáneamente, en un drama que le es ajeno. Todo esto es algo que escapa a nuestro poder de comprensión y cuya posibilidad sólo podemos concebir en virtud de una maravillosa armonía preestablecida. - Arthur Schopenhauer
~ Unknown
Off with his head—so much for Buckingham.
~ Colley Cibber
I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.
~ Colm Meaney
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Passion is tragedy-in-waiting
~ Connie Brockway
Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.
~ Corin Nemec
If this were an episode of Bridgerton,he'd be the "rake
~ Unknown