Quotes About Drama

If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

A boxing movie without clichés is like a political campaign without lies.

It was because I craved the drama of her ambivalence, the tenacity of her enthusiasm, the sting of her doubt. I read those books because I needed to be with her. Is it too much to say that I was in love with her? Who was she, anyway?

What seems to be a stone is a drama.

To try to distill the Bible, which is bursting with life, drama, and tension, to a series of principles would be like trying to reduce a living person to a diagram.

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

Sometimes I think he wanted it to happen. Maybe he felt alone and unloved and he wanted someone to notice him in the most dramatic way: a rescue. How luxurious it would be, he could have thought, to have your father's powerful hands snatch you from deadly water, pull you up and return you to the shore where your family is waiting for you. Then they would recognize how valuable you are. You wouldn't be ignored after that. Every day you would be loved the way you deserve.

Not where he eats, but where he is eaten'?" He laughed again. "Racine has his moments, sure, but you can't beat Shakespeare for the really grisly stuff.

Two families—one side wears tuxedos and holds a gas can, the other wears a frilly gown and holds a match.

Nothing like the theater to bring out the claws and pepper in people.

CLYTEMNESTRA What ails thee, raising this ado for us? SLAVE I say the dead are come to slay the living.

Thunderstorms were what death, and dramatic events, generally should be like, but usually were not; the idea that our life's dramas rarely look as dramatic as they are. Our most cataclysmic moments are typically free of gravitas, of necessary thunder; a person dies, but instead of the sky darkening and lightning striking, the sun continues to shine and the birds to sing.

Why live in a soap opera when you can star in a great love story?

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

Isn't it strange how life turns into melodrama?

You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else... ... is vaudeville.

Jean-Eugne Robert-Houdin, the extraordinary father of modern conjuring, made the salient point that a magician is an actor playing the part of a magician. This is a very good description. However, an actor takes for granted how to create drama in every word, movement and look. The average magician is barely aware of its existence.

The secret to surviving heartbreak is finding more pressing drama.