I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.
Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.
There's a whole world of bad TV that's along similar themes - the cop drama.
Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?
I get a lot of dramas, but I'd like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that'd be a nice step for me. No more screaming or running or shooting. . . for one movie where I can just be in love with a boy.
I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.
I really like playing the bad guy. There are so many more objectives to play when you're mad or villainesque, or when there's some agenda that you have. That's drama, that's where the heart lives. I love playing the bad guy, but especially the bad guy who's still with the girl.
It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.
Even if you didn't come to meet me, I'm just going to like you.
Steampunk is. . . the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama
The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem.
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama. . . The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'. . . He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.
Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
If your purse no longer bulges and you've lost your golden treasure, If times you think you're lonely and have hungry grown for pleasure, Don't sit by your hearth and grumble, don't let mind and spirit harden. If it's thrills of joy you wish for get to work and plant a garden! If it's drama that you sigh for, plant a garden and you'll get it You will know the thrill of battle fighting foes that will beset it If you long for entertainment and for pageantry most glowing, Plant a garden and this summer spend your time with green things growing.
Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just good drama. I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. I was in love with The English Patient, and movies that are very romantic in nature and have a positive message. That's a large part of my fingerprint.
I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama class in high school.
