Drama Quotes

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...

...this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all ...

God knows of love

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social cont...

The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, invo...

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...