Quotes About Drama

In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.

To me, pause is sometimes the most important, most effective moment in a film or play or anything.

Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets.

I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable.

The best script in the world doesn't work perfectly when you actually act it out. That's a law. That's a given. So you have to play with everything. And the more fun you have with it, the better the finished product.

I always wanted to perform.

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

Professional wresting is like performance art. It truly is. You're taking the crowd on a ride, on an emotional roller coaster.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.