Quotes About Drama

My last two scenes in 'Yatra' were memorable in the sense that I had ample scope for emoting.

Just memorizing and emoting, for that you get paid. But that isn't acting.

'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.

I feel like when the people in 'Insecure' are honest, the characters learn the most. This show has grown my cynicism a little a bit about relationships just because the way men and women responded to the fact that Issa was cheating on her boyfriend.

Top Boy' didn't try to glamorise anything. It gave it to you how it was. But it also dealt with mental health, social situations, immigration.

To have a drama teacher as a mentor was just like, 'Oh, what a gift.'

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too.

If only Tammy knew how much I really cared about her. She has nothing to do with any of this mess.

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

I created a lot of drama and mess in my life.

My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

Luckily my own life is uncomplicated, which lets me really enjoy other people's complicated messes!

I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

I think I'm more the method acting school.

I am not into method acting.

I don't believe in method acting.

I am not that big a method actor.

I'm a method actor.

I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with 'CSI: Miami.'

In 'Of Mice And Men' I play a straight dramatic role and I'm the only female in the play.

Mickey and the Bear' was the scariest choice I've made in my career because I feel pretty safe in the world of comedy and everything else, but I don't feel safe in deep, dark, scary roles that I took on like 'Mickey and the Bear.'

We did 'Jack & Bobby' in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone thought we were advocating for one person over the other. The stuff I work on is more about the people.