I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.
I've always felt like the reason I became an actor is because I look for more high drama than what I had at home.
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.
My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.
