Quotes About Drama

The acting in 'Downton Abbey' has been consistently excellent across the board.

When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.

There's so much drama in the lives of boxers. It's a contact sport and everyday they beat up people for a living.

It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.

I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.

In a fight, you don't need much context for drama. You watch a fight, and that's it.

You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.

I think I was born for controversies.

Some shows do nosedive at the end, or some piece of content could become incredibly controversial and affect the way the show is seen.

It's very tough playing a real life character in a controversial story.

When a play is really cooking, there's nothing like it.

It's the coolest job to be on Broadway.

To me, when I watch movies, it's always fun to watch the bad cop or the bad guy.

When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.

You can't beat a cop drama. That's what everybody seems to want to watch.

I love crime procedurals. I always have. I love cop shows.

I've played a lot of cop parts.

I don't want to play a copper. I couldn't do it.

When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops.

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to watch that.

I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

It sounds a bit cheesy saying 'Coronation Street' is like one big happy family, but there is a real aspect of that.

I couldn't resist the idea of doing 'Coronation Street.'