Drama Portrayal Quotes

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

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

One of the things I learned on medical drama 'Bodies' was that actors can't play ambiguity.

The only thing that I have to be assured of is that the character must be negative for a sensible reason. She should not be behind everyone's life just for fun, which is the case in many serials. Moreover, it will also test my potential as an actor, so playing a negative character would be an interesting challenge for me.

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.