Subtext Quotes

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don`t necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

Shakespeare doesn`t really write subtext, you play the subtext.

Personally, I don`t think we could do such a show if we didn`t get along. The subtext of all this is that we`re women in a show so we can`t possibly get along. It`s not like they write about The Sopranos like that.

(suburbia) "I think the atmosphere that I grew up in, yes, there was a subtext of normalcy. I don`t even know what the word means, but it`s stuck in my brain. It`s weird. I don`t know if it`s specifically American, or American in the time I grew up, but there`s a very strong sense of categorization and conformity. I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that you`re living in."

It`s a dramatic shift for my character. He has put away the hatred for his brother - the sibling rivalry, the envy. At the core of him is respect for what he knows Sonny to be, and the subtext that he can save his brother.

The generation that`s 20 years old doesn`t need the subtext of a sitcom,

I was never a member of the Communist Party, but they brought up all sorts of charges that I had been to the Lab Theater, which was considered subversive. All we did there were the classics, `Volpone,` `The Cherry Orchard.` I still don`t know how they managed to find a Marxist subtext in Feydeau.