Quotes About Drama

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.

Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves.

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'

I was never a bright student, potentially never good at dramatics; I was sometimes given one-line roles that I was happy to do so that I could bunk classes. My mother used to cry three times a year, and that is when my report card used to come.

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

Living in London as a student is tough. And my heart goes out to every single drama student in London because, as an actor, it's a creative process that you are taking on, and if you don't get to do it every day, it hurts.

I went to uni and then drama school afterwards and lived in quite a few student houses.

I was a terrible science student, so I could never be a scientist; my mind doesn't work that way. But I've learned to love the stories around science, and I have so much respect and fascination for the people who can make discoveries and find applications. There's a lot of drama there.

The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'

I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!

I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me; I don't know why! There were only 330 kids in my high school, though, so it wasn't a lot of kids to impress or reign over.

Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play. However, acting majors are not supposed to act. They can write the play, for example, and the writers may work on stage art. Likewise, stage art majors may become actors, and in this way you put on a show.

I studied philosophy at Columbia, then dropped out to do drama at the Lee Strasberg Institute.