Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.
I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.
People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.
When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.
Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.
There's no way around it - drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.
In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.
I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile.
I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'
I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.
As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.
With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.
Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.
The nice thing about student drama is that you're allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn't mean no one will ever hire you again.
