If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in "The Wild Duck," and I afterward had her killed, so there will be no more of that out of her.
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
I'm pretty picky about plays.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.
The whole saas-bahu drama is very cliched. I feel there's already too much of that on TV. So I was waiting for something like 'Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi.' The show offered a fresh and interesting plot.
'The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
'Downton Abbey' is just one cliche after another, and it is a really, really poor piece of drama. But that's only me talking. That's just my take on it.
It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.
