Quotes About Drama

Every time one can write a self-deluded song, you are way ahead of the game, way ahead. Self-delusion is the basis of nearly all the great scenes in all the great plays, from 'Oedipus' to 'Hamlet.'

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.

I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.

Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They're so cool in the way that our characters are cool.

I'm a super theater nerd.

I was a theater nerd.

I was a music theater nerd in high school.

In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

One of the things I love about 'Idol' besides the drama, the backstories, and the crazy arrangements on popular songs is the auditions, when everyone is full of hope and nerves.

I don't watch much TV at all, but I did like 'Narcos' on Netflix a lot.

In fact I watch Netflix these days for something light.

I heard, 'Shondaland is doing Regency England with Netflix,' and I was like, 'I'm in!'

'The X-Files' was a hard sell because people didn't know what it was. The network didn't understand what it was that they were buying, and at the beginning, they wanted us to have closure. They wanted us to put the cuffs on the bad guy at the end of each episode.

With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character.

I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.

Of course, I saw 'The Social Network,' which is a beautiful film.

I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

If you've seen me on 'The Celebrity Apprentice' or 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey,' you know that I find myself in hot situations far more often than I'd like.

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.