Quotes About Drama

Most times, I'm playing myself in films, like 'Rocky' or 'Creed.'

'Dawson's Creek' was my college experience.

Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

I cried watching 'Million Dollar Baby.' I'm a big baby, man.

In entertainment, we have a comfort level with crisis.

In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it.

I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.

I have been offered other roles on television but I don't think I'll be able to enact those crooked characters.

It's usually human drama that carries with it issues of race or class that attracts me. That was certainly the case with 'No Crossover.'

Football is beautiful and cruel.

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

I cry at movies.

I cry in movies a lot, and over books.

I want you to laugh and cry. That's what I do.

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

I'm an entertainer: I want to make people laugh, cry. I want to move them.

As an actor, I love to play a good crying scene.

I like to do the whole gamut of emotions on stage - big crying, shouting, hair-pulling.

You have to stay hydrated when you have crying scenes.

That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

We are not brain surgeons. We are not curing cancer. We are not finding the next cure for Alzheimer's. We are simply and merely entertainment. We take on and wear the masks of characters. That's what we're paid to do.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

Screenplays are the currency of Hollywood.

As an actor, you know that every act has a closing curtain.