My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what I wanted to do until I discovered drama.
It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.
There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
Surround yourself with people who get you, it will save you so much drama from those who don’t.
Life is drama you play your part every one out here are audience to judge you make sure you playwell
I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.
Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.
I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
Only in drama does it end with the tragedy; in life it grinds on. Moanday, tearsday, happy days, right through to Shatterdays. And Again.
I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.
When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has a little bit of friction, conflict, absurdity.
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.
Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.
Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.
I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.
