Quotes About Drama

I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role.

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

Theater is great because you're able to tell a narrative arc without a break. I think it's more about the material and whether what we get offered is good.

Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

If and when I am offered a strong script, I would be happy to do TV.

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

I get offers where I'm either asked to play the villainous saas or the maa who just wants to get her daughters married.

Before 'Cagney and Lacey,' we didn't follow officers home to find out what they did when they took their badges off and emptied their guns. So the idea that these women also had lives outside of work was really interesting to play.

And I think 'Offspring' has given me that opportunity to really appreciate the audience and want to entertain them and make it the best drama I can.

My mother and my father are both very funny people, and they're both artistic in their own right. Oftentimes, we get very dramatic about things, but we also laugh really hard.

Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?

Oh my God, I love doing acting.

There was a time when people were like, 'Oh my God, Sheamus' character is boring.' Well, when you're just in wrestling matches all the time, and you're not doing character stuff, then it can be a bit monotonous.

I watch 'Under the Dome.' Oh my God! I love it.

I can go to the BBC and say, 'OK, my next drama is for women, and it is diverse women.' I take that to America, however, and I have another set of conversations.

I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.

One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week.

In Oklahoma, the girls like the big football players. Girls were more interested in those guys, and I was, like, kind of a drama kid.

'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

In high school, driver's ed was at the same time as drama class. And I had to take drama class. Now I can sing the lead in 'Oklahoma!,' but I can't drive.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.