Quotes About Drama

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

I love 'Game of Thrones' just as much as I love watching the NFL; I think a lot of fans do, too.

I get a lot of dramas, but I'd like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that'd be a nice step for me. No more screaming or running or shooting... for one movie where I can just be in love with a boy.

I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.

'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's just my take on it.

Personally, I think it would have been really nice, if 'Lost' had just one season.

There's just something about BJ Penn that gets people amped up. You don't know what's going to happen but something is going to happen. He might disappoint you, make you happy, make you cry or make you jump out of your chair, but he'll do something to you.

I can't always say that justice is always done in 'Game of Thrones.' It is not.

Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to seek out stuff that sort of more along the lighter fare. I have more fun on those sets than I do on drama sets just because when it's heavy, it's heavy, and it's hard to get away from it.

'Revolutionary Road' with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet absolutely destroys me. They were both so wonderful in it.

I am keen to work in romantic stories and dramas.

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

I am keen on doing negative roles.

In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping 'Community' on people's minds.

I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

I enjoy watching Daniel Day Lewis, Jude Law, Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey.

The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

I got a real kick when a series was set in the court of Kublai Khan or in Nero's Rome.

I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.

We set up finishes for a reason so that you can build drama, work towards that finish. The drama is you don't quite get to hit it and that's why you didn't win that night. Had you hit that particular move, you would've won. Not that you hit it 4 or 5 times and the guy kicked out because guess what, it's no longer a finish.

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.