Melodrama Quotes

• The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Insane, World

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

  Sidney Lumet

  Drama, Character, Stories

  Sidney Lumet (2010). “Making Movies”, p.31, Vintage

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• If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

  Lillian Hellman

  Believe, Writing, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Elbert Hubbard

  Play, Two, Tragedy

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no flash of thought or opinion makes a barrier between us.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Running, Giving, Mind

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• Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about the way people interact.

  Guy Maddin

  People, Feelings, Fuel

  Source: thequietus.com

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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

  Stories, Clean, Shows

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

  Stanley Tucci

  Character, Reality, Blessing

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• I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

  Luchino Visconti

  Theater, Meetings

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• If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

  Irving Babbitt

  Men, Essence, Democracy

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

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• There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Drama, Writing, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

  Douglas Sirk

  Art, Ideas, Perfection

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

  Gay Hendricks

  Beginning Middle And End, Argument, Ends

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• Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Happiness, Positivity, Inner Peace

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Fiction, Dramatic

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• Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Real, Teenager, Fighting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

  Irrfan Khan

  Theater, Known

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• Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

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  Ram Dass

  Drama, Humorous, Mellow

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• Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fighting, Ego

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• 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 the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Glee, Watches

  "A life in writing: David Sedaris". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.

  Tom Baker

  Darkness, Feelings, Trying

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• Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Hands, Annoyed

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sex, Civilization, Numbers

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• I define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It's the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it's actually uninhibited. And it's a big difference - people look down on exaggerations, but I think they should look up to the un-inhibitions.

  Guy Maddin

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

  Robert Penn Warren

  History, Ifs

  Robert Penn Warren (2015). “The Legacy of the Civil War”, p.33, U of Nebraska Press

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