Quotes About Drama

With 'Sons of Anarchy,' I had to leave a couple of times - I got another show, and I had a baby - so they sent me off to rehab. If I hadn't left, they probably would've killed me off by now.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven.

In the theater, we used to have four weeks of glorious rehearsals.

If you ever watch me at theatre rehearsals, you will know what a bad actress I am. I am bad... bad... bad... and then, by opening night, it all just falls into place.

I like to rehearse before blocking.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

What is your favorite 'Housewife' line? Mine is, 'Who does that?' We all say it. Every Housewife in every city has said it at least 17 times during her reign.

I like to say 'Reign' is the '24' of the pre-Renaissance. I think we're going to take a lot of liberties with history, as well as extend it over a longer period of time.

Drama school should set you up for failure in a really positive way, because your life as an actor is going to be rejection and it also should train you not be afraid of success either.

I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

The screenplay has to be gripping. That's when the film will work. Then, I see how much I can relate to the character I'm playing.

I would not want to be a part sass-bahu sagas. These are not realistic, and it gets tough for me to relate to my role.

Any common man can relate to the story that 'Ye Hai Mohabbatein' has.

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

I love anything related to acting.

I think that the audience is smart enough to know that just because a drama is relating to real-world parallels, it doesn't mean that its story is exactly that story.

Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.

I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.

'Brahmotsavam' is a love story set in a family backdrop... It's all about relationships people have on different levels.

I prefer films and dramas based on families and relationships - films which focus on love and harmony.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I don't know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.