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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

Whatever kind of movie it is, youre going to be more into it when you care more about the drama, or youll have a better laugh if you feel like you know the people better.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a comedy-drama about people who live in the United States. It's a slice-of-life. I play a character-that's it. But I was well aware of the gay lifestyle before the show. I've been hit on in a really strong way by gay men who've tried to convert me, and a lot of my heroes are gay. William Burroughs, Lou Reed. Well, I guess Lou Reed is bi. The point is, it's 2002, gay life is no longer that shocking.

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

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.

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.

As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. The Jungian view would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

I went to drama school at New York University.

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.

There’s something kind of rewarding about playing the hurricane. My job is to create drama and chaos and there’s a lot of fun to be had doing that.

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.