My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.
I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
My middle name should be 'Drama,' but I love it. I think everyone should have some kind of stress in their life; otherwise, it's boring isn't it?
I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.
I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.
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.
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.
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.
