Quotes About Drama

'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

I love playing grotesques, I relish it.

When I was on 'One Life to Live,' I always wanted to delve into my character, Layla, to find out why she was the black sheep of the family. I so wanted to have some edge. I have no idea why there was a reluctance to do that or why we so rarely see it.

I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

Great stories are still just great yarns. News remains the best human drama ever. Technology is not changing the story; it is just changing the way in which we deliver it.

'Bodies' remains the drama I'm most proud of.

If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.

'The Painkiller' is a remarkable play.

One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

And while there are exceptions, a lot of plays done at the high school level are boring. At least, that's what I remember when I was in high school.

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

Theatre reminds me of Bollywood.

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it's the easiest you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.

'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.

'Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I'm proud to be a part of it.