Quotes About Drama

You come out of drama school and do theatre and are interested in creative endeavour, then you drift into TV and movies and realise that artistic endeavour needs to balance with financial success. There's no point spending millions on a movie that doesn't make any money, because the people producing it won't make another one.

I used to worry about the lack of roles for women over 40. But suddenly, everyone has realised it's interesting to have a drama with a woman at the centre of it.

I went to drama school but soon realised I was terrible at acting, so I ditched drama school for art school.

I got involved in the Surrey Country youth theatre which led me to go to drama school where I realised that this was going to have to be my career, and I was really lucky to get big breaks early on.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

I like movies where everything is dealt naturally and with a sense of realism.

'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic world we see around us.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

'Shameless' is just such a realistic show.

'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

I don't like high concept movies very much, and the kind of scripts that I would occasionally get offered tended to be really high concept comedies or romantic comedies. I just don't like it. I like much more realistic movies with actual psychology and behavior in them.

I would love to do realistic films that are entertaining.

I like to lean on making wrestling the most believable, realistic form of entertainment as possible for the most part.

I rarely get to be part of realistic films.

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months you're going to have some catfights.

What I like about Kannada cinema is that the stories are realistic, but told in grand, larger-than-life fashion.

If I'm watching a heavy drama and there's no moment of people laughing, I always think that's not realistic.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

You can play yourself and make a very good career out of it. Do the same type of role, the daring, good-looking, dashing kind of guy. I mean, there's a role for that guy in television, films, whatever. But people who are able to shape-shift and go from drama to comedy to whatever, there's an art to it. Especially in Hollywood.

When you're in a good play and a good production, you find that you're in something that has a life beyond you. You think, 'Oh my goodness, this play's alive.'

In 'Bodies,' we had a lot of gore because it was a medical drama. The gore was authentic.

I loved 'The O.C.' and I totally watch 'Gossip Girl,' too!