Quotes About Drama

Acting isn't being who you are on screen. It's pretending that you're someone else.

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

I was really pretentious in a sense and was like, 'I'm going to drama school to learn the craft.'

With comedy, I've always had a pretty good sense of what I like and how to execute it well, but drama has its own rules.

'Colors' is pretty good. It takes you inside the cop car bit. I like reality myself. I like reality-based kind of movies.

Comedy is not easy to begin with, but comedy that also dances with drama - it's so hard.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

I could watch 'There Will Be Blood' all day long, and Daniel Plainview is a terrible person - but he's still compelling to watch. That's what makes me want to engage and see what happens next.

'Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it.

The greater the darkness, the better the drama.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.

The 'Dead' films allow me to talk about things that a drama, say, won't. 'Dawn Of The Dead,' which was set in a shopping mall, is on one level about consumerism; 'Land Of The Dead' is a response to Bush.

My day job has always been in the theatre.

I'm a fan of daytime drama; I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I'm a fan in the room going, 'People are going to be so mad right now!'

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'

I thought 'Dead Man's Shoes' was a masterpiece.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

When I go to the movies, I want to see a human being dealing with their lives. That's all I ask.

This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.