Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled.

Quit pretending to be humble when you are really just a self-abusing, emotional, drama junkie.

Qué extranjera raza la de los adultos, la de los hombres y las mujeres. Qué extranjeros y absurdos, nosotros. Qué fuera del mundo y hasta del tiempo. Ya no eramos niños. De pronto ya no...

Not only these were new kinds of stories, they were being told with a new kind of formal structure. […] The result was a storytelling architecture you could picture as a colonnade – each episode...

Everyone has their secrets, and there are shadows following us all.

I didn’t act professionally before going to drama school. I don’t know if I had the confidence. I didn’t think I’d get in when I first auditioned for drama school, and then I did.

I half-expect to check out, but I’m really there for it. It’s not like at the dance, angry and forced. It’s terrible in its gentleness and he’s just wasting it on me.

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?

Nice to meet you, Dick,” Drew retorted.

Where you look you follow so never look back and never look down. This quote is especially useful if you happen to be riding a horse.

Drama is real life – with the dull parts left out.” Alfred Hitchcock

It is a Siren’s burden,” she whispered, “So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you are only partly human yourself. Soon you will not have...

When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you understand that nobody knows anything and everyone must decide for themselves.

We are one.

It’s usually human drama that carries with it issues of race or class that attracts me. That was certainly the case with ‘No Crossover.’

Besides, men aren’t worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we’d be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the...

I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it’s like a nail, like a hot...

Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of DenmarkIs by a forged process of my deathRankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,The serpent that did sting thy...

There’s something to say about inspiration – when it comes into your life…the feeling is insatiable.

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Theater cannot include only people. What acts on stage is matter.

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with ‘I love you, I love you’– like father’s page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn’t warrant a waste of...

There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.

My dad didn’t want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.

I say haven’t we had enough of just tossing our children in jail? Make them do community service, I say!

Her name was Mora … and she was waiting.

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.

Taking on too much of other people’s drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life.

Feel it, deal with it, then throw it away

You’ll never really be great unless you aim high.

I want him and even if it’s frightening, even if I may not be completely ready for a relationship, I want him. Now… And tomorrow, and all the following days.

Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be.

Is there a problem, Ms. Parker? Something you want to say to me?” Reaching for his tie, he began to loosen it, unraveling it with his fingers, angry eyes still locked on mine.”I’m not sure...

Poe, come on. Don’t be like this.” She avoided his gaze, and that was killing him. He’d rather she yell at him than give him nothing at all.

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.

I feel a blood moon rising” Neesa

Over the years Breece had lectured that truth was liquid. That it evaporated in the heat of passion, froze in the cold of fear, and bent itself around virginous, unpurposeful fibs. It could churn and...

She looked herself in the eyes and saw that there was nothing left. No sense. It must have gone through that hole in her chest along with everything else.

Sometimes you just have to be there to understand, even if being there makes no sense at all.” – excerpt from: freefalling

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

We dream — it is good we are dreaming —It would hurt us — were we awake —But since it is playing — kill us,And we are playing — shriek —What harm? Men die —...

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It’s softened up a bit.

Ar fi putut să scrie despre unii adolescenți, ființe ce suferă mai mult dec t oricine pe această lume neîndurătoare și care ar trebuie să se bucure de mai multe drepturi dec t toți oamenii,...

Whom the gods love dies young

It’s all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I’m collecting them. I’m always looking for a hero, you know?

You… you want to kiss me?

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

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

A young girl needs to spread her wings, but a young woman needs roots.