Mary Gaitskill Quotes

I overdramatize.

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

Sometimes I'll let little things get to me. Or I'll make a big deal out of little things.

Some people might find me overdramatic, but those close to me know that's how I am.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.

I seem quiet. But when I get upset, I talk too loudly. I'm sort of an alarmist.

I'm way too hypersensitive.

All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.

When you were a teenager, everything's kind of drawn in primary colors; everything's big, and everything's life or death.

I'm not a drama queen.

I am a drama queen!

I think that as a kid I was pretty drawn to melodrama.

Whatever Brett Favre does, it's a sign of the apocalypse.

My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.

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

The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.

I'm on my feet, pacing around the room, punching a fist into my palm, which I stop doing when I realise how drama queen it feels.

I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.