33 Quotes About Ignoring Drama

Teaching drama is an important part of education. The experience and creativity earned can benefit on raising awareness to various cultural and social issues. These quotes about ignoring drama counter the appreciation that should be given to this artform.

“A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in thetheatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.”

“All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.”

“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”

“Basically, when I hear the words ‘family drama,’ I run in the opposite direction.”

“Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.”

“Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.”

“Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.”

“Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it’s done right. Even a pancake.”

“Drama lives on conflict. If you’re trying to deal with social issues seriously, there’s no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.”

“Drama’s not safe and it’s not pretty and it’s not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea.”

“Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying ‘victim,’ especially when you’re not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you’re not one.”

“Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.”

“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”

“Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.”

“Family is supposed to be our safe heaven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache.”

“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends
yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.”

“I always like to keep myself on the outside of drama, looking in from a distance.”

“I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.”

“If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.”

“If you’re tired of drama in your life, just quit being the actor.”

“In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell of a country, the cell of humanity – everything lies in the family.”

“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”

“My life is full of drama, and I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.”

“Never let somebody’s drama determine the outcome of your day.”

“One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.”

“People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what’s really in there, and they’ll do anything – as well as make it up – to get it.”

“So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.”

“The basis of drama is… the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.”

“The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.”

“The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.”

“The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.”

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

“When faced with senseless drama, spiteful criticisms and misguided opinions, walking away is the best way to stand up for yourself. To respond with anger is an endorsement of their attitude.”

Drama can bring you in and change reality as you know it. Influencing the way we see things in the world around us, drama offers a unique value to our world.