Quotes About Drama

MARTY and THE GIRL exit into the kitchen. THE MOTHER stands, expressionless, by her chair watching them go. She remains standing rigidly even after the porch door can be heard being opened and shut. The camera moves up to a close-up of THE MOTHER. Her eyes are wide. She is staring straight ahead. There is fear in her eyes.)

No Russians tell me they cheat to create drama. They say they long for heart-stopping, tear-off-your-clothes romance. I hear about a man who left an entire lilac tree on the doorstep of the woman he was courting. Given the grim realities of life in Russia, this fairy-tale passion might be sustainable only in extramarital affairs.

We grow up in educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, and as a result we become adults who treat politics as a spectator sport.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

She stepped back, his hand left suspended in the gap between them, and demanded, "Did you get Lily pregnant?

Drama is to life what ships are to the sea. A means to traverse it. To plumb its depths, breadth and beauty.

On notera par amusement le privilège commun qui associe fortuitement ces trois termes : la mélancolie , après tout, ne métamorphose-t-elle pas le corps en théâtre sur lequel l'âme joue ses drames universels dans une terrible démocratie du malheur, sans privilège de caste ni de rang ?

Tipsy actress Vera Charles (who had 'more changes of costume than facial expression,' according to one critic to whom she never spoke again) ...

Life was too heavy on her feet in that place to leap dramatically when something apparently exciting happened.

She shakes her head, fiercely. "You idiot! You stupid fucking IDIOT!" She don't say effing.

They resented being cast as the villains in a drama, but it was their own stunted, stubborn blindness that made them so well suited to the role. They couldn't change.

Ella esta ahora en los bastidores, a punto de salir a escena. Preparemos el escenario para su entrada...

In our plays, if the Cthaeh's tree is shown in the distance in the backdrop, you know the story is going to be the worst kind of tragedy. It's put there so the audience knows what to expect. So they know everything will go terribly wrong in the end.

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

The great spectacle of human crookedness. It keeps coming at you from all sides, and whether you like it or not, it's the most interesting show in town.

Adolescence feeds on drama, it is most happy when living in extremis, and Ferguson was no less vulnerable to the lure of high emotion and extravagant unreason than any other boy his age ...

Adolescence feeds on drama, it is most happy when living in extremis, and Ferguson was no less vulnerable to the lure of high emotion and extravagant unreason than any other boy his age, which meant the appeal of a girl like Anne-Marie was fuelled precisely by her unhappiness, and the greater the storms she engulfed him in, the more he wanted her.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

The Bible is the story of a love drama that looked as if it would end in tragedy—but then Jesus came.

Suddenly de Montfort went rigid and the ciborium slipped from his hand, dashing the white hosts like snowflakes onto the altar steps. The man's hand went out, pointing at the king, his usually skull-like face now almost cadaverous, the skin drawn tight, the eyes bulging. Corbett rose, his hand searching for the knife beneath his cloak. De Montfort's mouth opened and shut like a landed carp, then with a loud cry he fell headlong down the steps, his

A study of Handel's operas and other dramatic works in addition to the undramatic and hence atypical Messiah will disclose a Handel largely unknown: a composer with a remarkable sense for dramatic human character. He saw men and women where others have seen only historical-mythical busts.

Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch.

Sweeping and dramatic changes make for good theater, but in real life, they're not effective.