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.
As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.
With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.
Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.
The nice thing about student drama is that you're allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn't mean no one will ever hire you again.
It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.
I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
My experiences and training back at drama school were very enlightening. I always believe in improving, be it kathak or my acting skills, and would want to experiment more when it comes to work.
I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.
In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.
I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group in Nottingham when I was 11 and went there for ten years.
I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.
I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
