Quotes About Drama

'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

I'll be playing a priest in 'Chavez Cage Of Glory,' which is a fight movie.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

I'm primarily a character actress.

'Kanche' is not primarily a war film: it is a lovely story set against a war backdrop.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

In your early 20s, it was maybe acceptable to have a friend who was taking all of your time and energy and exhausting you and always a drama. When you're in your 30s, or you're starting to have babies, you just can't put up with it anymore, and that's okay, because I think your priorities shift.

There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

I usually tell people I watch like '24' and 'Prison Break.'

If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

Anytime you have a family member getting out of prison, there's always drama.

I watch box sets. I worked my way through 'Breaking Bad' and 'Prison Break.'

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas.

Sprinkle in a bit of pro wrestling in MMA is good. You get the fans talking. They want that drama.

Pro wrestling is entertainment, but people get hurt all of the time.

Anything can happen in pro wrestling.

I find fight scenes actually more interesting, in a way, than chase scenes because you're watching your character go through this problem-solving process and fight the antagonist mano-a-mano. It's more powerful, more emotional.

I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.