Quotes About Drama

I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

I never thought I would write about Chicago, and I definitely never thought I would write a drama.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

There's nothing worse or more grating than a bad child actor performance.

It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.

You can't be too choosy except in the case of period drama.

My acting chops are awful.

Shooting a fight is like shooting any other scene. You have to tell a story using a very specific choreography.

All the drama you see about Christianity or the Catholic religion? People are seeing through that, and there are really authentic people out there with faith.

Tommy Lee Jones

I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.

I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people.

I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.

The concept of 'Heavy Rain' is to offer real-life situations with real characters. There are no supernatural elements in the story.

And yes, there's a big difference between playing a negative role in a family drama and a supernatural show. Being an actor, I have to take such risks.

In a regular soap, you do the routine stuff, but in a supernatural show, there are so much more to do and learn.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

I think it's fun to be superstitious. There's a drama in being superstitious. I'm like that in general. I have friends who don't believe in love or just think it's a chemical thing, and they don't believe in magic. I enjoy believing in all that stuff. It makes things seem more important than they are, like there's more to it.

Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.