Melodrama Quotes

Melodrama Quote of the day

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions I was (am?) not unique but special. This is why I was an artist

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

Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego.

What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about the way people interact.

Come on, Kaylee, before I choke on testosterone and melodrama.

Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.

And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his name?

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.

You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you’re gone, but one thing I won’t miss? Your overwhelming sense of melodrama and despair. It’s too much even for me.

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

He called me his 'dream.' I guess now I've become his nightmare.

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned

Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.