Quotes About Drama

USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.

There is a drama queen in me, as I love acting, and I used to stand in front of the mirror and act since my childhood.

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

'Heirs' became an emotional experience for me. I had a hard time bringing out my emotions in the series. I used all my physical and emotional energy to bring out all that acting.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

I think that 'The Sopranos' uses music incredibly well.

At drama school I learned the Stanislavski technique, which uses sentimental memories and bits of your past to put real emotion into the scene.

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

In 'Drama,' I play a flirtatious girl who uses her femininity to get things done.

India uses Bollywood, rather cinema, to tell its stories. It is one of the largest filmmaking nations in the world and so your talents get to tell stories about politics, love and drama through films.

Would we even recognize an Oliver Stone production if it didn't kick up the usual fuss?

I'm not someone who has had to deal with much personal drama outside of the usual: growing up with parents who hated each other, two marriages and divorces of my own. There was the cancer thing, too.

You always have to have a bit of fun if somebody is dead in a scene. That's a red rag to a bull for an actor. You do a little poking. You do things to annoy the actor. It's your job. You have to utilize the opportunity. You have to get through the day.

I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.

Reality TV is utterly exciting.

'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.

Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.

I don't vacation on the water. I'm a pale-skinned redhead; I get sunburned out there. I'm a little frightened of the ocean, in fact. But I just know there's great drama out there.

I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!

It's a vain craft, acting.

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.