Drama Quotes

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

May the odds be ever in your favor ~ Effie Trinket

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have whe...

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was poss...

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on ...

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the...

Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streakin...

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural...

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am fr...

Drama is based on the Mistake.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

Because you know that's all I needs, all I wants, is for you to try to run, to turn your back on me ...

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golde...

You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a g...

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

Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the so...

Once upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...

A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you'r...

Chorus of women: […] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of n...

Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray?Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to adm...

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to liv...

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!Lysistrata: If that's all th...

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth m...

I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what ...

It's terrific, Clare," Henry says, and we stare at each other, and I think, "Don't leave me.

To be able to say "I love you", one has to be able to say "I

In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for ex...

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyr...

I care for you, darling, I love you,the only reason I fucked L. is because you fuckedZ. and then I f...

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

The missed call and call back drama between men and women deserves its own user mannual.

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1

O, thou art fairer than the evening air     Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;     Brighter art...

Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thouOr any man that b...

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then peop...

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distrac...

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.Every reiteration of t...

The basis of drama is ... is the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he...

All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situat...

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if the...

I would later discover it was a bad idea to gather more than two of these people in an enclosed area...

I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. ...

Come on up, boys-I'm dead.

-while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his...

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough p...

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

The artist tries to show reason in experience and appearance – and lyric is the daily appearance, th...

[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being...

- Ay! Thornton o' Marlborough Mill, as we call him.- He is one of the masters you are striving with,...

We dream — it is good we are dreaming —It would hurt us — were we awake —But since it is playing — k...

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and w...

Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own ...

LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey)...

I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Th...

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.

Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a...

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man ...

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there m...

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.

To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is ri...

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I...

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

...uncorny, human sized drama

I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present m...

The intoxication with the theatre, with its limelight, costumes, and masks, and with its passions an...

Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first nig...

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

When Danny finally got off his knee, he took her by surprise again. He immediately began to tap a nu...

Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torm...

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that sh...

[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but...

When I say to the Moment flying;'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!'Then bind me in thy bonds undyi...

Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when hea...

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the d...

Not to sound like a jerk, but Jane isn't really my type. Her hair's kinda disastrously curly and she...

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not n...

Honestly, I don't even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that I'm asexual o...

Half my life is an act of revision.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the...

And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes fr...

To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...

As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in t...

For in America this season is decreed “family season”. (Eat your hearts out, you pitiable loners who...

FOXFIRE NEVER SAYS NEVER! By the time the kidnapped turquoise-and-chrome car overturns--turns and tu...

Freaky kids like us can’t ever be normal- Tyler says smugly- Our generation is some new kind of “evo...

For in America this season is decreed “family season”. (Eat your hearts out, you pitiable loners who...