Melodrama Quotes · Page 2

Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego.

— Deepak Chopra

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

— Anonymous

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.

— Mark Duplass

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

— James Gray

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Maisie Peters

Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.

— Michiko Kakutani

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

— Joyce Maynard

And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his…

— Amanda Hocking

Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh,…

— Marti Noxon

“We all know starry-eyed romantics like love stories, but few would argue early and intense exposure to sappy melodrama causes a romantic…

— Gerard Jones

“You have more zeal than good taste, Martín. The disease afflicting you has a name, and that is Grand Guignol : it…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end…

— Lillian Hellman

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway…

— Floyd Dell

“Ma was out back, head in hands, weaving in and out of her heaped-up crap. It was both melodramatic and not. I…

— George Saunders

Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about…

— Guy Maddin

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically,…

— Irving Babbitt

I define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It's the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it's actually uninhibited.…

— Guy Maddin

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

— Nicholas Sparks

Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language…

— Leslie Jamison

But the truth of the matter is, that was fairly, fairly early on in Goebbels' 800 movies that he made in Germany.…

— Quentin Tarantino

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the…

— Jack Nicholson

“We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much…

— Alain de Botton

“We need to get out," I said. My voice sounded raw to me. "Trouble coming." "No," said a beautiful Sidhe baritone. "Trouble…

— Jim Butcher

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your…

— Deepak Chopra

If I were to do a drama again, I would really like to work on a fatal melodrama, like a love that…

— Song Hye-kyo

With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama.

— Todd Haynes

“I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,”

— John Kennedy Toole

'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.

— Mark Duplass

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

— Bong Joon-ho

“Simon Templar was a man who couldn’t help spreading melodrama all around him like an infectious disease.”

— Leslie Charteris

What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

— e. e. cummings

I'm part Latin, so everything in the Latin culture is - there's a lot of hyperbole, and there's a lot of melodrama.

— Nina Tassler

“Parker let the letter drop to the floor, an act she often criticized in movies for its melodrama.”

— Abby Slovin

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of…

— Richard Flanagan

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

— Baz Luhrmann

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

— Gay Hendricks

I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.

— Luis Negron

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

— Sidney Lumet