Quotes About Theatrics

As an actor, you want roles that are full of meat.

I can put on my resume: 'Can play dead.'

It's my job to be ridiculous.

The stage is where I started, and there is a tremendous satisfaction in doing a good play.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

I'm good with a script.

I can overact in two seconds.

This whole thing has become a pantomime.

I would never ever want to be an actor playing anyone other than myself. I can't do voices or anything. No, it's not for me. There are lots of people who are trained actors and I feel it's offensive for me to do it.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

I came from theater, which is its own beast.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

As actors, we are expected to come up with an exaggerated performance, which is far from reality.

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

I performed in plays like 'Ashwatthama' and 'Andha Yug.' It was hardcore theatre.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it's the theatrics involved. It's like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.

'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.

When you get all this stuff on and you put on the guns and the hair, it has an effect on the actor. It tends to lend a certain something to the way you feel as you're just walking around looking that way.

You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.