#Drama Quotes

“Exit, pursued by a bear.”

“The play's the thing.”

“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.”

“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”

“The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.”

“Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.”

“Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To paint a scene, if one thing be painted, it is easy enough; but to paint different things and yet to keep up the central interest is very difficult. Another difficult thing is stage - management, that is, combining different things in such a manner as to keep the central interest intact.”

“The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that.”

“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”

“Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.”

“There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.”

“Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.”

“Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.”

“For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart”

“Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.”

“Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.”

“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.”

“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”

“Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”

“A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.”

“Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.”

“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”

“The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.”

“Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.”

“When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.”

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

“One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.”

“Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?”

“When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.”

“I like a drama.”

“I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.”

“Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is concerned, dating back to the Greek tragedies or the Old Testament. And violence is a form of conflict, so whether that's catharsis or whether that has some socially damaging effect on audiences - I suppose that would just depend.”

“Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.”

“He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!”