Quotes about drama

Robert Pattinson -

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'

Edward Bond -

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

Michael Haneke -

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Steve Maraboli -

Some people insist on inviting me to their drama buffet... No thanks! My soul hungers for nourishment and growth it doesn't lust for poison and depletion.

Star Jones -

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

Dan Stevens -

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

Jonathan Franzen -

The Berglunds were the super-guilty sort of liberals who needed to forgive everybody so their own good fortune could be forgiven who lack the courage of their privilege

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Drama don't arrive by surprise it is subconsciously attracted to fertile grounds.

Steve Maraboli -

Gossip and drama are different stages of the same intoxication… the first is the buzz the latter is the hangover.

Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

For I never care to do a thing in a quiet way it's got to be theatrical or I don't take any interest in it.

Evelyn Smith - The Summer of Secrets

I'm already in hell what else you got?

Steve Maraboli -

How do I have productive days with minimum drama? Simple I mind my own business.

Taylor Swift -

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

Daniela Bobadilla -

I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason. With 'Awake,' I got to do a drama, and with 'Anger Management,' that's my comedy.

Sydney Pollack -

In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.

Gary Lineker -

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

Pia Zadora -

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

Elizabeth Reaser -

I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama.

Rani Mukerji -

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

Alison Sweeney -

I'm a fan of daytime drama; I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I'm a fan in the room going, 'People are going to be so mad right now!'

Sonny Chiba -

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Robert Staughton Lynd -

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Victor Hugo -

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Michael Shaara - The Killer Angels

Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling the yell up from his chest: Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! He leaped down from the boulder, still screaming, his voice beginning to to crack and give, and all around him his men were roaring animal screams, and he saw the whole Regiment rising and pouring over the wall and beginning to bound down through the dark bushes, over the dead and dying wounded, hats com

Sherrilyn Kenyon - Dark Bites

Aricles and I are married. The Greek god Apollo found out and he threatened to discredit and shame me before the other gods unless Aricles refused to fight. To protect my honor and name, he has allowed all of you to insult and attack him, and I will not stand for him to be hurt again. By anyone." Bathymaas

Kris Courtney - Norma Jean's Sun

I recount as this journey begins where I rest to gather the tale from thissame old house resting on the hill, leaving me a view of a carnival once seen from just across the tracks. My pallet is dry now. The colors I see no more. The rain has washed away many of the signs that once stood for a prosperhome and family. My grave is waiting. The dreams once filled my head withimages of world unison, hope and companionship for all. The saga spokenthrough my canvas drew darker as the years went on to t

LaTonya "Tee" Johnson -

You don't need everyone to like you, just the right one(s)!

Peter Ackroyd -

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

Leon Trotsky -

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art.

Joe Montaperto - The Edge of Whiteness

Ask not what your Joe Montaperto can do for you, but rather what YOU can do for your Joe Montaperto.

Julie Kagawa - The Iron Daughter

You know, I'm really starting to hate the insect life around here. Next time, remind me to bring a can of Off!

Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest

JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.

César Aira - How I Became a Nun

Why is it that drama always starts late? Whereas comedy always seems to have started already.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.

Darlenne Susan Girard - freefalling

Sometimes you just have to be there to understand, even if being there makes no sense at all." - excerpt from: freefalling

Darlenne Susan Girard - freefalling

Love is a funny thing. It’s not at all what you expect it to be. But if you have to stand out on the corner to prove it, then maybe it’s better not to be in love at all." - excerpt from: freefalling

Darlenne Susan Girard - freefalling

Today I’m going to pretend I’m dead. I wonder if anyone will notice." - excerpt from: freefalling

Brandi Salazar - Midnight Masquerade

Wes sat in a cracked vinyl booth picking at his fries and listening to Amanda go on and on about the dress she'd found. '...and it has these little lavender bows. Oh, Wes, I can't wait 'til you see it.' She gesticulated wildly, and her only saving grace right now was her amazing rack that swayed and bounced with each movement. Sometimes he swore that was the only reason he ever looked crosswise at Amanda Price. That, and her daddy's checkbook. 'And I found these shoes--" 'Uh huh, that's nice,' h

Jess C. Scott -

Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.

Shannon L. Alder -

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.

Mitch Albom - For One More Day

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

M.C. Frank - Lose Me.

People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of what they say, to get to what they truly feel. That's what good literature is all about-- what Austen did better than anyone.

Patrick B. Vince - Love Is a Four Letter Word

love is a drop of bloodin apool of tears

Pat Conroy - My Reading Life

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

Jess C. Scott - My Inner Goddess

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

Sara Shepard -

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.

William Elias -

Some say the bible teaches that with our tongues we can speak, set things into motion both good and bad, life and death. What we bind and loose on earth will be bound and loosed in heaven.

William Elias -

Ah, you big Nancy, there’s nothing to be afraid of. Seen it many times before. They come and go, boy, never change. It’s the same type from the very beginning. Nothing’s changed except the clothes and technology.

Arun D. Ellis - Daydream Believers

We all know that 97% of the money in the world doesn't exist and that's thanks to Fractional Reserve Banking, or should I say fictional reserve banking." He grinned at his own joke, his smile partly hidden by his hair, "Money is no longer attached to the Gold Standard, therefore, it isn't based on anything. So when it says, 'I promise to pay the bearer on demand ten pounds,' I have to ask, ten pounds of what?" Silence. "The world is owned by the rich shareholder, the rich superstar, the rich ind

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

D.W. Marshall - Stolen Flame

You know everyone loves a palace.

Pepper Winters - Twisted Together

You're unpredictable and dangerous and protect those you love fiercely. You should be proud. To me you're more than a knight in some stupid shiny armour. You're the monster who no one can tame but the woman he loves. - Tess Snow

Shantale Finnerty - Enticing Taboos

You CAN have your cake and eat it too. Just don't start choking.

N.L. Armitage - Beyond the Pale

Have you never been so heartbreakingly lonely that you felt as though you would go mad?”- Darcia Moon, Gravitation, Book One: Beyond the Pale

Chloe Thurlow - Katie in Love

Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled.

Sabrynne McLain -

And Kate thought about a time, long ago, when she had witnessed an ongoing romance between two mental patients. As a teenager watching their unlikely relationship unfold in front of her, she had understood that people did whatever they needed to do to be happy, regardless of their unfortunate circumstances. She supposed her mother’s day care center was born out of the desire to feel needed, while making use of the skills that were practically all she had managed to acquire during decades of batt

Tom Barry - When the Siren Calls

A hard man is nice to find

Huntley Fitzpatrick - My Life Next Door

I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder.

Jason Lloyd - The Garden of Fibs and Sin

Revenge never ends until everything and everyone around it is destroyed. A vengeful heart never rests.

B.C. Morin - Mark of the Princess

Alannah?” He held her limp body waiting for a response. “Don’t do this.” He put his hand over the other cut whispering his words and healing it as well. “Alannah?” His voice begged, as he held her face in his hand Still no response. He looked at the ground she had laid on realizing that she had lost a lot of blood. Then from the corner of his eye he saw the rise and fall of her chest and let out a breath he hadn’t realized he was holding. She still lives.

Jeffrey Archer -

When Danny finally got off his knee, he took her by surprise again. He immediately began to tap a number on his mobile. Beth knew only too well who would be on the other end of the line. 'She said yes!' Danny announced triumphantly. Beth smiled as she held the diamond under the light and took a closer look.

Gillan Flynn - Gone Girl (405)

I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me

Sharyan Alleyne - Our Lives

Never give up no matter how tough the road seems,keep going and visualize yourself in the realm of what you are going to achieve.

M.R. Field - Splinters

Like a phoenix rising through the fire, my Robbie, my Tesoro rises forward, and I hope and pray that he can take him out.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Oleander Girl

It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Oleander Girl

Asif Ali maneuvers the gleaming Mercedes down the labyrinthine lanes of Old Kolkata with consummate skill, but his passengers do not notice how smoothly he avoids potholes, cows and beggars, how skilfully he sails through aging yellow lights to get the Bose family to their destination on time. This disappoints Asif only a little. In his six years of chauffeuring the rich and callous, he has realized that, to them, servants are invisible.

Maureen Gregory - Beware the Seventh Wave

Where you look you follow so never look back and never look down. This quote is especially useful if you happen to be riding a horse.

Maureen Gregory - Beware the Seventh Wave

Don't quote me on that

Mary Papas - 14 Twisted Tales To Enthrall

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better

Reyna Hawk -

Feel it, deal with it, then throw it away

Jenna Brooks - An Early Frost

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?

Richard Castle - Heat Wave

You’re not leaving. I told you that.” She worked to keep the calm in her tone to counter his fury. “I’m going to shoot.” “It’s time to put your gun down, Noah.” “His blood will be on you.” Rook made eye contact with her and mouthed, Shoot. Him. She had no shot and said so with the smallest head shake.

Tony Kushner - Angels in America

The body is the garden of the soul.

Joseph Campbell - Myths to Live By

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together. And so we are right now in an extremely perilous age of thunder, lightning, and h

Hugo Ball - or the Dandyism of the Poor

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Jacqueline Francis - The Journal -

This woman is a virus and she’s eating me alive.

Robert G. Ingersoll -

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

Kristina McMorris - The Pieces We Keep

War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.

Kerri Thomson - The Chocolate Is The Life

She often felt like she had been cast in a supportingrole with the film that was Louise. And there was more melodrama to be found there than a full-scale Merchant-Ivory period production. Tonight, she was certain, would be no exception.

Charlie Fey - Easy "A"

You are still a spoiled rotten brat, Richie,” Seth said to Vegas, with no emotion on his face. “But I’m not going to let anyone hurt you...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust

When I say to the Moment flying;'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!'Then bind me in thy bonds undying,And my final ruin I will bear!

Stella Adler - and Chekhov

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

Tony Kushner - Part Two: Perestroika

Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to.

Tony Kushner - Part Two: Perestroika

Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.

Stella Adler - and Chekhov

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

Judy Blume - Tiger Eyes

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

Stephanie Witter - Patch Up

Wow, Skye.” He kneels in front of me, ready to put one of his huge, strong hands on my knees. I recoil suddenly before I catch myself. Someone normal doesn’t react like that at the mere possibility of an innocent touch. “Okay, I’m going to sit on your friend’s bed.” He does just that, his eyes locked with mine. I have the sense I’m trapped and I don’t like it. I don’t want to ever feel like that again. “You should go,” I say, my voice wavering and barely above a whisper.He takes a sip of his cof

H.P. Landry - Wrecked

As I stared into those crystalline eyes, I knew I had finally found what I was looking for, but it came with a price. Damien was everything I hated and it wasn't until that moment that I realized how lost I really was. My soul was drawn to his very aura, but the ache within my heart was the undeniable reminder that it could never be a reality. My pride and stubbornness had forever wrecked what Damien and I could have had. I was but a galaxy within a black hole, something so majestic and extraord

Bryony Pearce - The Weight of Souls

Lions and tigers, bitches and bears, oh my.

Stephanie Witter - Patch Up

If you were ready to sleep with me we wouldn't be in this bar, but in my room not wasting any more time.

Jeanne McDonald - The Truth in Lies

Of course, in my mind, violence would have been better, but since that wasn’t an option, I decided to play along. “It’s okay, handsome. I’ve only been here a few minutes. I’d like to introduce you to Dick.”“No, it’s…” Richard tried to correct me only to be interrupted by Drew.“Nice to meet you, Dick,” Drew retorted.

Donna Goddard - The Love of Being Loving

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

Courtney Giardina - Tear Stained Beaches

A man who respects his wife, does not sleep with other women. And a woman who respects herself does not allow her husband to get away with it

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

There are often great lessons to be learned at the roots of stress, drama, and heartache. Don’t let the magnitude of the circumstance blind you to the value of the lesson.

Aristophanes - Lysistrata

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.

Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we must remind ourselves that capitalism, like science and liberal democracy, was an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. Its principal theorists, even its most prosperous practitioners, believed capitalism to be based on the idea that both buyer and seller are sufficiently mature, well informed and reasonable to engage in transactions of mutual self-interest.