Quotes About Drama

I've done so much drama on television that it's very hard to sit down and watch other actors work. I find my interest is more in the real world.

'The Sopranos' only reflected the tenor of how things are done in New Jersey. They didn't invent it. And I say that as a fan of both 'The Sopranos' and New Jersey.

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.

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.

Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again.

I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise.

I've never seen 'Mad Men.' I've never seen 'Breaking Bad.' I've never seen 'The Sopranos.' These sort of seminal shows.

I am box-set girl; I buy into those big American series like 'The Sopranos' and 'Heroes.'

The theater is magical and addictive.

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I grew up doing musical theater.

The first perk of theater is the girls.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

I come from the theater, so I like it being: curtain up, this is what we want you to see, we have a reason for showing it to you, and then the curtain comes down, and that's it.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.