Luchino Visconti Quotes

Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

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.

'The Painkiller' is a remarkable play.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.

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.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

I like a drama.

I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

I love theater.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.