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

“I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.”

“All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.”

“I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.”

“Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.”

“When I become a character in a movie or drama … I can think about the character only and not the complicated matters of my own life. I feel ecstasy in those moments and it’s what keeps me going as an actor. It’s not about the money, it’s not about the honor.”

“Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.”

“The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.”

“There is drama in the very air of the place, and I want to be there recording it for the Geographic.”

“I remember when I came out of drama school I’d seen a lot of actors, brilliant actors who didn’t work very often. And when you’re starting out, there’s more rejection than there is acceptance, and I said to myself, “I’ll give it five years. I don’t think I have a strong enough mettle to deal with the rejections."”