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I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.