Quotes About Drama

All you need for a movie is a gun and a cat.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

Their legacy to America was immense, and the social sciences and humanities as well as the fine arts, music and drama would be unimaginable today without the contribution of these émigrés.

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer today--all the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is going--and write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

se cuadró y pidió un aparte.

Interesting outcomes, after all, are just awful outcomes with the volume of drama turned way down. I

As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I'm profoundly inspired by. . . . full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high.

Sometimes I think that the difference between a tormented creative life and a tranquil creative life is nothing more than the difference between the word awful and the word interesting. Interesting outcomes, after all, are just awful outcomes with the volume of drama turned way down.

In other words: I can either live a drama or I can invent a drama—but I do not have the capacity to do both at the same time.

You can receive your ideas with respect and curiosity, not with drama or dread.

I got a mother who wasn't having it. She wasn't having a minute of my drama, which is probably the luckiest thing that ever happened to me... she was not about to raise a little candy ass. Not on her watch.

A Doll's House is about money, about the way it turns locks.

Excuse me, but I believe you have my lady," one of them said in a quiet, deep voice that sent veritable chills down George's spine. Harry.

Lily opened the door. "Maude, would you—" She cut herself off. Maude was nowhere in sight, but Caliban was across the room, holding a page of her play to the light of the fire. His eyes were intent, his brow slightly creased—and he was quite obviously reading the page.

So far we have had a séance, with spirit possession, a White Lady walking by night, a perambulating suit of armor, a diabolical character in a black cloak, and even a semi-dead man with a look of stark staring horror. It isn't even good horror fiction; it's straight out of The Mysteries of Udolpho. By some straining of the brain I could believe in ghosts; but I can't believe in a ghost that acts like Terror Comics.

Lady Baskerville paced up and down wringing her hands. She required only an armful of weedy flowers to make a somewhat mature Ophelia.

Tony sat down with a thud. You're going to marry Schmidt?

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

Drama is like life with the dull bits cut out.

What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.