Quotes About Drama

Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

People got very wimpy about 'Scarface' very quickly.

The 'Arrow' thing happened really quickly.

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.

My life changed in 2005 on the day I met my wife, Tamzin. She was in a play called 'Breathing Corpses' with James McAvoy, one of my best mates from drama school. I knew who she was, and I'd fancied her quite a bit when she played Melanie Owen in 'EastEnders.'

After I left the R.S.C., I did a musical, 'Masquerade,' where I played a rabbit. I was the lead.

People go to car races to watch the crashes.

After 'Question Time,' I find my mind is racing. So I try to watch something that's a million miles away from all that, like 'Poldark' or 'Call the Midwife' or 'Derry Girls.'

I'm very fortunate now in that I have my first love, which is drama and acting, for a living and I'm also managing to go racing as well.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

I think some people watch 'Raging Bull,' or they watch 'The Piano Teacher,' and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary.

I've starred in many melodramas, but the reason 'Something in the Rain' is so special to me is that I feel like I'm living in reality.

'Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain' is a film seen through my eyes. I play a labourer.

We called 'Heavy Rain' an interactive drama, for whatever that's worth.

'Heavy Rain' is a cousin of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.

Another show I really enjoyed working on was 'Raising The Bar.' I did four or five episodes of that show.

Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.

Ram is the best reel father. My mother was happy as she follows 'Bade Achhe Lagte Hain' and enjoys Ram's performance.

On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.

I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.