Melodrama Quotes
Collection of top 41 famous quotes about Melodrama
Melodrama Quotes & Sayings
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
— Baz Luhrmann
I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.
— Todd Haynes
[ ... ] life had once again, perversely, refused to remain life-sized. It had turned melodramatic: and that embarrassed him.
— Salman Rushdie
Simon Templar was a man who couldn't help spreading melodrama all around him like an infectious disease.
— Leslie Charteris
Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.
— Deepak Chopra
Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.
— Simon Barnes
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
— Richard Flanagan
He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.
— James Gray
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
Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
— Jesse Kellerman
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
— Sidney Lumet
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
— Irving Babbitt
'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.
— Mark Duplass
History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
— Robert Penn Warren
egocentric melodrama.
— David Michie
Sentimental blackmailing is the melodrama done by heart over our brain.
— Upasana Banerjee
Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
— Irrfan Khan
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.
— Luis Negron
Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
He called me his 'dream.' I guess now I've become his nightmare.
— Richard Finney
Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.
— Ram Dass
Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego.
— Deepak Chopra
Isn't it strange how life turns into melodrama?
— Alan Moore
Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
— E. E. Cummings
I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,
— John Kennedy Toole
I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.
— Guy Maddin
The cigarette represents a simple pleasure coupled with self-destruction and defiance of death. Melodrama
— Benjamin Doolin
You just make a game out of relaxing in the face of its melodrama. You simply learn how to release the tendency for getting drawn into the energy.
— Michael A. Singer
I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.
— Guy Maddin
Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.
— Agatha Christie
And I have two eyes. I've seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What's his name?
— Amanda Hocking
The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.
— David Mamet
I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
— Luchino Visconti
Keep the fucking melodrama to a minimum."
(Sin) — Santino Hassell
(Sin) — Santino Hassell