Quotes About Drama

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

Listening to Evanescence makes me want to break up with a girl in real time as a giant antique hourglass falls to the floor in slow motion.

I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.

Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.