The drama takes a toll on you..

Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she….

My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given l….

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head..

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath..

I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the aud….

The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally ….

Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thou….

Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audie….

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible..

The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the….

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people t….

When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been ….

Everything in life is theater..

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment..

If you consider it valuable, it will grow valuable..

People, you see... are ruthless and foolish. When they're young, in order to have money and power, they give up everything like health and youth. And….

As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in t….

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't tr….

I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school..

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his come….