Quotes About Theatrics

I'm used to a lot of love scenes. I'm used to something that requires me to kick up my heels and wink-wink, flirt-flirt with a twirl of my skirt.

I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.

I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be being able to combine those elements into a character.

You know, I love acting.

I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.

The commander spoke to them as he always did, with sincerity and determination, but without theatrics.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.

I was hamming it up so much you could virtually taste the salad too.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.

Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.

It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.

You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.

Clement, usually a fluent speaker in any situation, could hear his voice assuming a pompous and affected tone, not unlike that which many actors use (wrongly in Clement's view) when playing Polonius.

If you're going to be a zombie in a movie, you go big or go home.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.

I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.