Quotes About Melodramatic

#1. If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn't a bad metaphor for anxiety - as a kind of drama queen of the mind. If you have ever been friends with a drama queen you know how taxing it can be. To have one in your head is enough to make you comatose.

Daniel Smith

#2. To be human was to be melodramatic, to feel things acutely, love and hate and lust, to search for the Holy Grail, outrun the other kids in the fifty-yard dash and care mightily about it.

Nevada Barr

#3. My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.

Jeff Cardoni

#4. It's not even a comfort when he's kind about it either, because in a way I don't want him to be. I want him to tell me that I'm no good, and that maybe I should get out of the car and walk in the rain like the tragic heroine of some melodramatic novel.

Charlotte Stein

#5. I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like Everwood that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny. I've always tried to find a funny angle on things, and 99 percent of the time, it just doesn't work.

Chris Pratt

#6. 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

#7. Your obvious need for attention and melodramatic acting sort of trumped my disfigurement.

Lindy Zart

#8. I am getting so tired of these melodramatic exits! - I muttered. - Don't goddesses ever use the door?

Jen McConnel

#9. C'est moi, c'est moi,'tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn't know if he'd catch the reference. I shouldn't have worried.
Unexpectedly, he laughed. Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.

Patricia Briggs

#10. I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.

Richard Elman

#11. They never got you, don't you know that? You irritating, charming, stubborn, evolved, intolerable, sweet, complex, caring, melodramatic bastard with your heart of gold. They never got you. You're wholly you, and you're perfect.

Dianna Hardy

#12. It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.

Chris Pratt

#13. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

Epictetus

#14. You're being kind of melodramatic.

Richelle Mead

#15. My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

Saffron Aldridge

#16. I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#17. My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

Matt Berninger

#18. 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.'

Peter Horton

#19. He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

W. Somerset Maugham

#20. We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.

Sloane Crosley

#21. Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#22. When you say he's your soulmate, I think what you actually mean is that he's utterly gorgeous and you'd really like to get him naked. Let's not get too melodramatic here.

Georgiana Derwent

#23. For a moment, all movement ceases and the scene is one of crystalline stillness, silent except for a slow, melodramatic heartbeat.

Daniel Clowes

#24. We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.

Michael Grant

#25. Poor Fa'a, I said, although my answer was more reflexive than anything else. He was a good, kind person, and although I thought he was being melodramatic, I appreciated his compassion. In the absence of action, Poor Fa'a seemed to be the only thing to say.

Hanya Yanagihara

#26. I think, as directors, they may recognize, more than the rest of the body of filmmakers, exactly what you do as a director, because I think sometimes the conception is if the camera isn't swinging around, and it's not pyrotechnic or worthily melodramatic, then the direction is uninvolved.

Lenny Abrahamson

#27. Across from us, Lia eyed our hands and then brought her own to her forehead in a melodramatic motion. "I'm a dark and angsty profiler," she intoned. "No," she countered in a falsetto, bringing her other hand up, "I'm a dark and angsty profiler. Ours is a star-crossed love.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#28. I could hear my dogs barking. Worse I could hear bleating. Joyful goat chuckles of freedom.
"The goats!" I clutched my head, an absurdly melodramatic reaction suited to this farce. "The goats were in the tree!"
"The ... Wait, what?

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#29. He's painted himself into a corner and a thousand lazy reporters and ever-so-sincere politicians had rendered the only word that he could use comically melodramatic. 'I think ... Johannes Cabal ... is evil.

Jonathan L. Howard

#30. Life sucks. Hard. I don't care how melodramatic that sounds, it's the truth and I'm living it.

Maggi Myers

#31. In this room hung with the trophies of culture, her story sounded melodramatic and rough. She felt like a squaw explaining how you tanned a deerskin by working brains into the bloody hide and then chewing it all over until it was soft.

Wallace Stegner

#32. If I was Todd's wife in real life, I'd have to kill myself. Okay, maybe I'm being a bit melodramatic. I wouldn't kill myself. But I'd definitely turn lesbian, at the very least.

Kristin Walker

#33. You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

Andy Serkis

#34. Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.

Clementine Holzinger

#35. Ma was out back, head in hands, weaving in and out of her heaped-up crap. It was both melodramatic and not. I mean, when Ma feels something deeply, that's what she does: melodrama. Which makes it, I guess, not melodrama?

George Saunders

#36. Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with - to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.

Steven Bochco

#37. The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

David Lyons

#38. 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

#39. You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

Harold Prince

#40. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#41. Is he right, about my creating excitement where I can? Even being melodramatic?

You went on a half-baked vengeance quest against Paul using a totally untested experimental device, I think. He might possibly have a point.

Claudia Gray

#42. Dead before the sun rises, I said. Stars, Bob, why don't you just go over the melodramatic edge and tell me that I'm going to be sleeping with the fishes?

Jim Butcher

#43. the word that the Buddha used for suffering, dukkha, actually has the more subtle meaning of "pervasive unsatisfactoriness," I was even more impressed. "Suffering" always sounded a bit melodramatic, even if a careful reading of history seemed to support it. "Pervasive unsatisfactoriness

Mark Epstein

#44. We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren't perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.

W. Somerset Maugham

#45. I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just, like, roll on the floor, like, just make it such a huge, melodramatic portrayal of whatever it was.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#46. They were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives.

Margaret Atwood

#47. I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.

Rodman Philbrick

#48. To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.

Sinclair Lewis

#49. Wait, here comes Cooper. In which case, carry on with your melodramatic moaning, but put some majesty into it. You know he lives to hear you judge everything as unworthy.

Sherry Thomas

#50. The wise person knows it is fruitless to project hopes and fears on the future. This only leads to forming melodramatic representations in your mind and wasting time.

Epictetus

#51. I would join Combat or die trying... A fine choice of words. What had been meant as a melodramatic proclamation was now to be my intended irony.

Rachel E. Carter

#52. Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#53. I present you with a simple choice! Either die in the vacuum of space, or ... " he paused for melodramatic effect, "tell me how good you thought my poem was!

Douglas Adams

#54. [ ... ] life had once again, perversely, refused to remain life-sized. It had turned melodramatic: and that embarrassed him.

Salman Rushdie

#55. If you scream, people say you're melodramatic; if you submit, you're masochistic; if you call names, you're a bitch. Hit him and he'll kill you. The best thing is to suffer mutely and yearn for a rescuer, but suppose a rescuer doesn't come?

Joanna Russ

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

James Gray

#57. I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

Donald Miller

#58. As a general rule, if you are prone to melodramatic meltdowns, please avoid purchasing a webcam for any reason.

Ray William Johnson

#59. Sometimes I think I am fate's sword. She wields me cruelly." Quentin wondered what it was like to be so unselfconsciously melodramatic. Nice, probably. "Right.

Lev Grossman

#60. Didn't Notai ships usually have long names? Like Ineluctable Ascendancy of Mind Unfolding or The Finite Contains the Infinite Contains the Finite? Both of those ship names were fictional, characters in more or less famous melodramatic entertainments.

Ann Leckie

#61. 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

#62. I'm called the Saint," he murmured. "But don't let us get melodramatic about it, son. The last man who got melodramatic with me was hanged at Exeter six months back. It don't seem to be healthy!

Leslie Charteris

#63. It is always pleasant to divulge a secret under dramatic circumstances.

Thomas Burnett Swann

#64. Darling," she said, "we're a train wreck."
"Sweetheart," I said, "train wrecks always make the front page.

Raziel Reid