Quotes About Drama

Theatre is known as a beautiful form of art where an actor expresses his emotions and feelings without any re-takes.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

Antagonists are always creatives efforts. They get extra attention be it in their costumes to their screen time. I actually enjoy it.

The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.

'The Walking Dead' is an extraordinary thing.

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.

I can't see any reason why a dramatic story can't be in 3-D. I think 'Lawrence of Arabia' would have been fabulous in 3-D.

Man, Amy Ryan. I have geeked out so hard for her - to her face! There aren't a lot of people that can cross those lines of drama and comedy so seamlessly as Amy Ryan.

I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

I failed the audition to get into drama school.

Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.

It happened on 'Laguna Beach' where you don't know what's real and fake, and I saw cast members who couldn't distinguish what was real and what was fake anymore. It was kind of scary to see, so I kept them very separate so that I didn't go crazy.

There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it.

I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.

It's amazing to play a character that gets to do everything - to have the action moment, have the really emotional moment, have the really fun, sweet, falling in love moment.

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.

When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.

'Homeland' does have that ability to tear the rug out from under you.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.