Drake Quotes

If he said I said that, he`s lying. I told (Drake), `Alfonso (blew) the call.` That`s all I said, I swear. I didn`t say anything derogatory.

(on Betsy Drake) Betsy was a delightful comedienne, but I don`t think Hollywood was ever really her milieu. She wanted to help humanity, to help others help themselves.

(Bell says that the Drake character is a much more exaggerated version of his real personality.) I was never that much of a rebel in school, ... I never really went to the lengths that he goes to to be that deviant.

My character on Drake & Josh is way too cool to be me. He`s much smoother with the ladies.

More than anything, this will be a time to celebrate. The Drake neighborhood is really hitting its stride these days.

I don`t want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn`t Rick Springfield.

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

As Vera Drake, I feel Mike has used all of me as a dramatic actress, in a positive sense.

He`s the nicest ... because he works so hard, and I think he expects other people to work hard. And in my book, that`s enough. We don`t roll into rehearsal at 10.30 and have coffee. We start at 8am, we finish at 8 o`clock at night. I mean, you don`t want to dither around him. And I think that`s fine. I think he`s entitled to say what he wants and what he doesn`t want. He knows a lot about it. He doesn`t have to be nice if he doesn`t want to, just to be charming. (On working with Mike Leigh in Vera Drake (2004))

I`m not Susan Sarandon. I don`t want to bang a drum. I think I`m just going to say `I`m pro-choice` and leave it at that. (On her view about abortion, something she`s been asked a lot after her role in Vera Drake (2004))

I saw Vera Drake and Mike Leigh is a masterful filmmaker. I think it`s indisputable. He works with actors like no one else. It`s beautifully shot and beautifully played. And yet at the same time, I just want to scream! I say, would it have been a sin for her to take money for a job well done? Does she have to be sanctified? I can`t take it, just how all the liberals, we all go in to see the movie and in a sense it turns us all into martyrs for the good fight. But it`s clearly not an examination of the ethical nature and so forth, it`s just a given that this is the good fight and we are martyrs for this cause. There`s another movie, a lovely film, wonderfully directed, Maria Full of Grace. There`s a scene in the movie where you have this 17-year-old pregnant girl in Queens and she sees Women`s Health Services, and she goes there. What`s the purpose of the scene? All it does is tell us that the baby is okay. I just want to scream! She stays in American, 17, pregnant, no money, no friends, doesn`t speak the language. I mean, really, the only thing she`s equipped to do is be a prostitute. To me, it`s just the falseness of that stay-on-in-America, land-of-hope and so forth, the falseness just makes me want to scream. It`s faux-liberal, in fact. I guess it`s just being patted on the back, being told, `You`re doing the right thing.` There`s no questioning. There`s no examination. There`s no stopping to think.

Ian Bostridge is an enormously talented artist, hailed as one of the foremost interpreters of the Schubert repertoire today. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to present Mr. Bostridge and celebrated pianist Julius Drake in this uniquely intimate performance.

I think it is going to be real competitive between Drake, Redwood and Tam. You can`t count them out, but this is a great way to start our season.