Drama Quotes - page 2

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business. (Rocco DiSpirito)
Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.
Sarah Sutton
I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.
Tina Yothers
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
Yvonne Strahovski
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.
Frank Zappa
If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
Thomas Hardy
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).
J. G. Ballard
The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.
Richard Wagner
[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. ... [T]he primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography.
José Ortega y Gasset
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. (Ang Lee)
I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.
Mark Wahlberg
Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
Robert Frost
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.
Helena Bonham Carter
Our Playwright may show; In some fifth Act what this wild drama means.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?" I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.
Peter Sellers
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that-in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.
Steven Weinberg
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.
Henry Miller
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
Samuel P. Huntington
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
Emil Cioran
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action. (Marshall McLuhan)
Youth instinctively understand the present environment – the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
Marshall McLuhan
It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.
Roger Ebert
If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
Edward Albee
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.
Willa Cather