Drama Quotes

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disas...

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a...

Whom the gods love dies young

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of av...

Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling...

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped ...

The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publ...

But nothing was said about chicken farming anymore. Once, long after it was too late for farming, he...

It was... the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosop...

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One...

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for...

I will break your heart over a fucking library card.

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to ...

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the expos...

DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-kn...

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depth...

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having ...

I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's...

He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems...

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

You fellows are amazing,' the sweaty cook roared over the stoves. 'Everything happens to you only. E...

Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too.Vladmir: Then why do y...

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering ...

I can't go on, I'll go on.

Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the...

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all...

I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran...

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he ha...

You have to understand your best. Your best isn't Barrymore's best or Olivier's best or my best, but...

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

Lie to me again," she whispered. "I love you," he said.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb. what a stupid lamb. what a sick, masochistic lion.

You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t...

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...