Quotes About Drama

I wasn't setting out to write a documentary; if I had, I would have done it in a completely different way. I was asked to write a drama that would appeal to a big audience in America that had no knowledge or interest in The Tudors at all.

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

I want everything I do to be as sexy as Bridgerton,' just in different ways.

You can be involved in media, and you can be involved in all the handbag hurling that goes along with it, and it's a different world.

Things work very differently in Bollywood. There is a lot of camping there.

I do really like serio-comic movies that treat real difficulties in a real way.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that.

Lisa Vanderpump is a manipulative person and when I was on the show I did a lot of her dirty work for her.

I think for the disaster to work and the drama to work, you really need to feel like you're really in that world.

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're playing.

It is important to understand that there is no distinction between comedians and actors. All are actors.

You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.

I'm such a diva on set.

I think we can all be divas, but as an actress, you can't only be the diva; that would be boring. But sometimes, perhaps, it's fun.

For me, a story always goes out of a mistake. Somebody makes a mistake, and that becomes the story. Probably that explains why my series are kind of dark: because there's a problem to begin with.

Doing a lot of drama earlier in my career and now exploring comedy has been a treat for me, and I've had an absolute blast, and I hope to continue.

Building a character - nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else's life on screen.

We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.