I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.
In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell of a country, the cell of humanity - everything lies in the family.
I want to be the kind of actress where, if I'm in the press, I'm in for the right reasons - for my work. To be in the press about family drama is kind of embarrassing.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.
People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.
Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.
I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.
The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.
The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.
My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.
