Are we not all actors playing parts in another person’s play?

Crazy got nothin on us” Neesa

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

Because otherwise you would have to let them in, let them change your life, and it’s scary and unpredictable and unsafe – at least, that’s what we all think.

I must be really ugly or something, because nobody wants me. Not even God wants me. That’s why he makes me stand out here in the cold. – excerpt from: freefalling

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

Blake smiled while greeting him and turned to introduce me to his friend from Camp Lejeune. Blake made the formal introductions while I studied the two distinguished men. I liked the way they both carried...

It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was – you know, the central figure in the drama...

Life’s nycer when it’s Naughtie!

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn’t make everything all right. It didn’t make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of...

Not anymore.

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

Ich wollte meine Augen öffnen, um Gideon ein letztes Mal anzusehen, aber ich schaffte es nicht.”Ich liebe dich, Gwenny, bitte verlass mich nicht”, sagte Gideon, und das war das letzte, was ich hörte, bevor ich...

It isn’t, really. Just pick what you like.” I like crystal-blue. Luckily, I didn’t say those words aloud.

You would free yourself from so much stress and drama if you just understood and embraced the truth that you are enough.

I’m not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don’t really seek it out either.

I prefer brunettes.

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.

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.