A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.
Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.
I have always said, even before I ever did TV, that I have a very dramatic family.
I live a dramatic life, it's just not on TV yet.
Not everybody's life is like 'Gossip Girl.'
I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.
After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.
If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.
I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
Life, especially life on soaps, sometimes needs a reality check.
Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.
For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.
I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.
I was always one of those people who thought my love life would be dramatic - a knight in shining armour would take me away on his horse. I was that girl; I'm still that girl. What better way to live that life than being an actor?
I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.
