Quotes About Drama

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

I'm not a big classical actor.

I wanted to be a serious actress and do all the classics.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.

England is a mecca for actors who want to do the classics.

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.

If I want to go to sleep, click on a procedural, put me right out.

There have been some wonderful climbing films, but for the most part, they are reenactments.

Art cinema is easier to do as situations in it are closer to real life.

But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

I went to drama school, where you learn to clown around a bit. You're walking around in leotards every day for three years, and you're taught clowning and mask work.

Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you know, doing drama club and community theater.

I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

Breaking news on live TV is a roller coaster.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

If we're ever seen having a public spat in a coffee shop, I think the concept of romance will die.

In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.

I love action. I love stage combat.

I went to LAMDA, which is a drama school in London, and we did a lot of combat there. I was quite good at all that.

Mostly what you remember and enjoy are the scenes you played with people. And quite often, they're the combative scenes!