Drama Skills Quotes

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.

I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

Comedy prepared me for drama. There are a couple techniques you can think of. One of my acting teachers said that comedy is like ping-pong, and drama is tennis. You take things a bit slower, so you do get to breathe more and take some more time.

I always wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little kid. I knew that I had to do something related to performing arts, and I enjoyed acting the most as it incorporated so many different art forms.

There are a lot of people in my family who should have become actors.

I was always a character actress.

I know that I have the ability to keep a play alive.

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage.

I want to be a great actress.

I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

As actors, we're a little faster than other people with breaking down the walls.

I think a lot of comedians make the best dramatic actresses because they have a facility. They're very vulnerable. They're very open, like clowns.

Actors need to learn when their character is front and center and when it's more in the background.

I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'

For people who don't know or didn't know that I started off as a singer, singing requires a certain level of drama, in itself. Honestly, it really prepared me to do this, and I've been really blessed to be able to transition into the acting world very smoothly.