Dramatic Skill Quotes

I feel there are only well acted or badly acted roles and no such thing as a good actor or actress.

I don't know why, but I was really good in that first play.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

I used to feel this need to prove to people that I can do something dramatic. But, the truth is that I don't know if I can. I don't think I have it in my skill set. It would be great, but I do love making comedies. It's been so much fun for me, and I hope that I can continue to do it.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.

You have to be careful with Vikram around otherwise he would eat you alive with his acting!

I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I feel more comfortable with it.

[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress.

I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy - I'm not saying it's easy, but dramatics are very hard.

Derek Jacobi is probably our finest actor.

I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.

The impulse to write the poem, that impulse is a great dramatic impulse. But hell, anybody could write a play. I do know this: all writers are not dramatists. You may be a great writer, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're a dramatist. Very few people have done both.