Quotes About Drama

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

It's lovely going to Oxford, it's very difficult to film there as you're doing a period drama in a city which is very crowded.

There's a pace in TV I like.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

We wanted it to be that you could go to the comic shop and read about the back story of 'Pacific Rim' and the drama inherent in it.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

'Namastey London' is my favourite Bollywood film, it is a complete pack - it has entertainment, drama, emotion and comedy.

'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Manon,' 'Giselle' - they are not stupid stories. They have fantastic characters. They have a big package of emotion.

As an actor, those kinds of really intense, emotionally packed, dark things, those always very appeal to me greatly.

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as you do in the first 50-60 pages of those books.

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

On my last two days of 'Young and the Restless,' I had 120-something pages of dialogue. My last two days.

What I would love is a crossover between 'Royal Pains' and 'Burn Notice,' that we could be involved in some sort of gun play intrigue. I would really love that because we have no guns. We have nowhere near enough explosions and guns on the set.

I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

When you have an ensemble where characters pair off so easily, it becomes extremely isolating in the story world. You can end up with two actors who have not seen each other face to face all season long.

India Pakistan' will be on the lines of 'Oru Kal Oru Kannadi' and 'Kalakalappu.'

This whole thing has become a pantomime.

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.