If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.