Drama Quotes

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

Prot: I'm not tired.
Brewer: I am.
Prot: Perhaps you're getting too much sleep. All your beings seem to sleep a lot. Is that because it's so awful to be awake?

No I'm not a dream, I'm your worst nightmare