Melodrama Quotations

Melodrama is something that is created... I don't seen a melodramatic episode of '90210' or any show that relies on that and think, 'Oh, that's life. That's how I experience it.'

I love 'Glee.' 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 okay to cry.

When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer melodrama of everyday life of the 1960s.

We didn't want to make things up. We didn't want to turn this experience into something that was melodrama ... to 'Hollywood' them up.

Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego.

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.

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

We always knew that we didn't want to show Alan Turing in the act of suicide - it was our feeling that would tip over into melodrama too quickly and seem over-the-top.

This certainly steals an acting style that was used in the clubs in Munich in 1900 and picked up by (playwright Bertolt) Brecht. We associate it, and rightly so, with some of the high melodrama that was used for silent films. So sometimes, with this style of acting and the piano in the background, you get the idea that you're in a silent film melodrama.

It's an attempt to do speaking opera. What I'm doing can work against the melodrama and the music, and parody the melodrama. In the love scenes, the men are picked up by the women ? the men are swept off their feet ? so I can get a lot of comedy from it. It's a comedy of opposition.

It will be a very peculiar closing ceremony, full of art, melodrama and circus acrobats. The aim is to have a big party that everyone will enjoy.

I didn't think I could continue to do the melodrama as I had done in Germany. I couldn't know how it would go over with audiences here.

I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

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

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

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