It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
In the beginning of my career, all I did was drama, and I couldn't get arrested doing comedy; nobody would hire me!
It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.
Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.
I remember watching 'The Wire,' because I absolutely adored 'The Wire,' and there were so many secret layers within that drama, and it was just fantastic.
When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.
I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'
I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.
I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.
To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn't need to find that gag in a line.
Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.
Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.
'Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I'm proud to be a part of it.
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
