No Drama Quotes

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

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.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.

The one thing I would tell everyone - myself included - would be to just chill out. Life, by design, provides us with plenty of drama without us having to augment it and invent more. Just chill.

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.

I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

To those who help me, I repay them with grace. But to those who don't, I repay them with exactly what I've received. That's my motto. Only then the world will be balanced.

I think that period dramas just need zombies.

We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

Each suicidal drama occurs in the mind of a unique individual.

Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma. Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.

You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

If everyone spent as much time o happiness as they did on drama and anger, they'd shine a lot brighter!

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

I love drama. My passion is drama. It always has been. I love telling those sorts of stories.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

In that endless time, we are born in the same age. In that infinite space, to be able to meet and become one with you, that fate is really amazing and the miracle is really beautiful.

In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.

Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.