When I was at drama school, people weren't taking pictures of themselves every five minutes. So I didn't realize how I looked. It was only when people started taking pictures of themselves that I...

I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and...

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

Drama is not a literal portrayal of events. It's a depiction, it's impressionistic.

I don't want to be doing a show that's negative, that's filled with drama.

Early on in my career, when I had basically been a sitcom actor for all of these years, and I made my first movies, and they were comedies, and they were successes, it was very important for me to...

I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble... and drama. It's either I'm working, or I have nothing to do...

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

My favorite TV show is probably 'Power.'

One of the first jobs I did out of drama school was a panto at the Magnum.

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of...

Drama is easy to fool people with, but you can't trick people into laughing.

Sometimes I think I attract drama.

I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful....

Above all, I am a theatre person, from the National School of Drama, I want to promote theatre.

'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.

I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became 'A Time to Kill.'

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna,...

When you're black in Hollywood, you know, your first role is going to be on a crime drama. That's - everybody knows that.

It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing...

I don't think I could write a straight drama.

In Raja Chanda's 'Ley Halua Ley,' I essay Locket's miser husband, who is suspicious of his beautiful wife. He is ready to go to any extent to protect his wife. The script of this film is hilarious.

I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.