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Quotes About Dramatics

As actors, we are expected to come up with an exaggerated performance, which is far from reality.
~ Vijay Antony
I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.
~ Mr. T
Simple explanations are usually the wisest ones - a person can complicate a straightforward situation with unnecessary dramatics and end up in a complete mess.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Et tu, Henry?" Asher held a hand to his chest. Henry didn't bat an eye. He was clearly used to the dramatics.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
She turns to us, acts surprised to see us, then does the bit with the back of the hand to the forehead. You're lost! You're angry! You're in the wrong school! You're in the wrong country! You're on the wrong planet!
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
~ Caitriona Balfe
I think theater ought to be theatrical.
~ Tom Stoppard
Are we all ready? (Deimos) (Letting out a blood-chilling war cry, he and the rest of the Dolophoni ran through the caverns.) I hate their dramatics…and their decibel level. (M'Adoc)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
My father tolerated no dramatics of any kind. I'm not certain which is more devilish uncomfortable—too many emotions or none at all.
~ Ashley Gardner
Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.
~ Robert Englund
In pro wrestling, if somebody throws a move, it's my job not to get hurt but also to sell the move and make it look like I'm dying.
~ Matt Riddle
Showing fear is like having comedic timing because I think actors have a tendency to go way over the top with it, and that sort of loses steam for what's going on. The audience sees right through that and laughs at you, so it is something that I'm aware of.
~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
~ Bela Lugosi
My whole idea, to me, is if you're a heel in wrestling, you should not having a band playing for when you come out and people will react in a positive way.
~ Edge
I don't like overacting or putting in way too much in a role when it is not required. It takes away the natural performance which you can give.
~ Sunny Singh
The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
~ James Marsden
I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.
~ Mathew Baynton
Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn't died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places.
~ Tamora Pierce
I used to be like a normal IIT student to be very honest. Then I joined the dramatics society there in IIT Kharagpur.
~ Jitendra Kumar
I can't bear it when young actors do too much finger-wagging. It spoils the audience's concentration.
~ Prunella Scales
You got here in the nick of time," Johnny said, grinning insolently at him. "I was just about to start ripping off her clothes.
~ Karen Robards
Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Glenn's 1962 Mercury flight was fraught with dramatics, from his 'Zero G and I feel fine!' exultation upon entering orbit to his reentry with what was feared was a faulty heat shield. After he safely splashed down, the nation erupted with applause and gratitude not seen since Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic.
~ Homer Hickam
Are we all ready? (Deimos) (Letting out a blood-chilling war cry, he and the rest of the Dolophoni ran through the caverns.) I hate their dramatics…and their decibel level. (M'Adoc)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon