Keep the fucking melodrama to a minimum." (Sin)

A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense…

— George C. Wolfe

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

— Simon Barnes

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like…

— David Sedaris

“Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper…

— L.M. Montgomery

William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy…

— Marchette Chute

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

— Grantland Rice

So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to figure out…

— Ira Sachs

I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don't feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so I simply…

— Elizabeth Wein

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

— Sidney Lumet

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an…

— Matt Taibbi

I wanted to make an album that would make other people feel the way I felt listening to 'Melodrama.'

— Maisie Peters

I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is…

— Nicholas Sparks

As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has…

— Mark Colvin

Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego.

— Deepak Chopra

“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that…

— Albert Camus