Dramatic Roles Quotes

I don't want to be pretentious about, "yes, I need to move in to the more dramatic roles and express myself and prove to everyone that I'm capable of doing it," it really isn't that, I think that's a bad reason to choose roles. It's more like, who would I be working with and would they be fun to do and entertaining to watch, is it an interesting story or character.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Where does an actress go after playing Cleopatra's magnificent death? Why didn't Shakespeare write more - and more powerful - roles for mature women?

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that.

Give me meaty roles, and I'll sink my teeth into them!

As an actor, you always want to do the juicy stuff. But, it's important to get the levels right.

Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.

I want to just be able to act and be like the girl next door or the cute babysitter or the busy mom who's fun or who knows, maybe something super dramatic, somebody who's really insecure and angry.

I think William H. Macy is the best actor in Hollywood.

I think it's nourishing to do both comedy and drama.

Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.

I would love to play a Bond Girl one day, but I'd also love to work on a project as challenging and heartfelt as 'Room.'

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.

Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me.

If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don't regret, even about bad choices, is that there's always something you can get out of it.

I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

Some of the best dramatic actors have started in comedy.

Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs.

I always wanted to do dramas. Ever since I was young, I wanted to be in a role where I could play a prostitute or a drug addict, because it's nice to be able to portray someone who is so far from you, which I love.

When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.