Quotes About Drama

For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.

The realm of 'The 100,' it's pretty complicated. I don't know. My mom never knows what's going on.

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.

During all of my writing career - this includes when I was writing plays and my other screenplays - I don't recall ever writing a negative character, which does not mean that my characters aren't flawed or do not make mistakes. In actual fact, they all are quite flawed.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

At first, when I received the script for the 'Archie' show, I was immediately turned off.

I'm not a big reality TV person, although recently someone got me into 90 Day Fiance,' which is pretty addictive.

If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have a belief that when I do melo scenes, I try to make them less cheesy.

I always feel like a script is a recipe, and then you bring the elements into the recipe, and you cook with it.

I don't really miss the life around EastEnders because it's so intense. It's so well-watched that... it's quite a lot... a lot of people recognise you. It kind of takes over your life.

You have to be able to hold up a mirror to your personality at drama school and recognise the flaws. That's hard to do as a 17-year-old. But it's easier to cope with when you're a little bit older.

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of actors who share a certain bloodlust.

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has a little bit of friction, conflict, absurdity.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

The New Gods really need to be larger than life. There's an operatic quality to them, and they need to be handled pretty carefully, or else you'll go too far and be almost like a caricature.

I'm able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

I'm incredibly proud of 'Hannibal' and the cast - I feel like we're doing really good television.

'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.