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?
Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.
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.
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.
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.
