Quotes About Drama

There's nothing wrong with taking bold action. Life and happiness occasionally demand it. But remember that you hear about people making big changes because this is the exception, not the rule. Narrative drama comes from bold action, not from the incremental progress that leads to sustainable success.

Narrative drama comes from bold action, not from the incremental progress that leads to sustainable success.

Kane's gloves get pretty rank. He grabs you for a chokeslam, and you just want to faint.

I came through the ranks of the BBC documentary department. I was lucky working during this drama doc era, where they did reconstructions, basically like cheap drama made by the factual department.

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

I will take to my grave with me the atmosphere of the first 'Cursed Child' preview, because no one knew anything. Only very rarely have I been able to deploy the phrase 'audible gasps.'

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.

I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.

'Special 26' was a raw, real film.

I loved 'Breaking Bonaduce.' I was amazed it made it on TV. It was so raw, so disturbing.

There's a fire on 'SmackDown Live' that I don't think 'Raw' has.

I'm the bad guy on the rest of Jennifer Love Hewitt's 'The Client List,' I'm the bad guy in Renny Harlin's 'Hercules 3D,' and I'm a movie star - finally - on Showtime's new series 'Ray Donovan.' But most importantly, I'm about to be a daddy, so I'm expecting some 'Dark Circles' for real.

'Ray Donovan' is such a revelation to everybody who's working on it, and it's only getting better.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

I learned about not just being with someone because I don't want to be alone: being willing to be alone, and then find something that feels right and just reaching for companionship for companionship's sake. Not letting drama lead my life.

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

That's what acting is. You're not alone. It's reacting. That's what we do.

Working with good actors is a pleasure as acting is all about reacting.

If the actors aren't reacting the way people would react, that's where you step into disbelief.

Anytime you really take a close look at people who are dealing with the aging process, you're going to have a complicated reaction to what you're seeing and feeling. If you're in the middle of it, those emotions are going to be quadrupled. It's immediate, it's relatable, so it's good human drama.