Quotes About Drama

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.

I have dealt with criticism from my first drama, and I think that is a part of our profession. It brings me down but definitely pushes me to do better.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

On film and TV sets, they let you sit down. Theater is like pushing a boulder up a hill each night. It's a fun boulder, but it's a boulder.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

When WCW first really began to enjoy the success that we enjoyed, it was because of the story lines that we were putting out in front of people.

I have always had a flair for acting; maybe that's why I enjoyed casting so much.

What captivated me about 'The Flash' is the human drama in it.

A boring speech can be just a boring speech. But a speech with a joke that falls flat is awful. I hate it. That's why I think it's easier to hate a comedy. If a drama doesn't land, it's boring; if a joke doesn't land - you hate that.

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays.

Basketball movies don't really accentuate the flow of the game.

To go straight to 'Scandal' and get to play the larger-than-life guy who has the page-long rants and gets drilled in the leg with blood flying everywhere, it was a blast. It's really been a nice counterpoint after the first season of 'The Carrie Diaries.'

My followers are some of the most loyal people out there. They know everything about me and my life. They know all my drama with guys that I have crushes on, all that stupid stuff that doesn't really matter. But all that stuff allows me to build a close relationship with them.

If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

We used Chaplin's formula in all my pictures. Make 'em laugh for five and a half reels, and then make 'em cry in the last half reel. But give 'em a chance to dry their eyes before the lights come up.

Acting is not at all my forte.

I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.