Quotes About Theatrics

Captain Blood, Robin Hood, Don Juan -Flynn had played them all. Sometimes if the mood struck him, he'd even played them well.

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

You said a bad word!" Lyssa hammed it up, eyes wide and limpid, and cranked her tear ducts all the way from Flood Danger: Raise the Thames Barrier to Critical Emergency: Three Gorges Spillway Eroding.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I'd do it in a flash. That's what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It's not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.

I'm an actor more than anything else.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

Oh, I'm dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he's an unbelievable character. I'm a character actor; that's what you look for: outsized human beings.

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

I like being mysterious as an actress.

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

To die with style, live in the Baroque.

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Don't roll your eyes. It punctures my dramatic moment. I want my dramatic moment unpunctured.

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

It is always pleasant to divulge a secret under dramatic circumstances.

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.