Drama Quotes - Page 24

Whether you get hurt by weapons or feelings, it hurts when you get shot in the heart.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live.

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.

Drama is this incredibly vulnerable thing, but with comedy, you have to have a sense of rhythm and be very sensitive to the pace of things.

drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.

Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and I was in a state of listening, a state of bliss as I was listening to the drama of her story, and suddenly she stopped talking and said, "Oh, you are doing healing."

When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.

You only get one chance at life, not two! Don't joke around with your own life.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

I'm not like normal people. I'm no good at relationships. I draw drama to me - it's the Jew in me.