Quotes About Drama

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

I want to do drama - no one really sees that. People just think I'm the funny guy and I can't do anything else, and that's just not true.

I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.