Quotes About Drama

Dramas about addiction can be exciting to watch. And then dispiriting. Exciting because degradation is fascinating to follow from the relative safety and smugness of an 'appropriate' life, and dispiriting because if all that sad mayhem can happen to this or that character, what's to keep it from happening to me or you?

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.

Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there's a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because of all that drama. There's so much that goes on, and we miss it when it's over.

As we like to say on 'This Is Us,' death is not a release. Our main character has never been alive for the entire run!

Glam rock always has a story to tell and has that powerful voice with a little hint of libretto.

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry.

So I did 'Celebrity Big Brother' and while I was locked in a house with crazy people I came out and Denise had actually gone to my agency and got with my agent. And my agent told me, hes like, 'Yeah, I have Denise Richards. That's so exciting, right?' I go, 'So basically you hired my competition. That's amazing.'

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Though I enjoy playing historical characters, it is very taxing.

It is very satisfying for an actor to be able to play a historical personage.

Previously, I was in a historical drama so I'm happy to show my romantic act, even though it's short.

Usually, historically, nothing good comes out of relationships becoming more complicated!

I enjoy 'The Apprentice' and the one that's called 'Take My Life' and the other one called 'Stop Hitting Me.'

I went to theater school where there is a lot of holding each other's faces and crying, and a lot of kid gloves.

Hollywood is a world all its own.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Comedy is easy for me, but with drama, I don't know... it's still the Holy Grail.

There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that 'Homeland' does. And yet, the audience still comes back and loves those characters.

'Homeland' is not a sensationalist show.

There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'

I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.

I like 'Homeland' a lot.