Quotes About Theatrics

I'm a super theater nerd.

I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.

Ideally, you should be combining gesture, action, and expression with your dialogue.

the splat of pies would become a regular component of slapstick, and no one was more adept at throwing them than Arbuckle. The ambidextrous actor sometimes accurately hurled two pies in opposite directions simultaneously.

I love playing idiots. I love very weird, confused women.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

I've been stealing scenes all my life.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

He knew he was not a brave man, but he had a great sense of drama. In some circumstances it could seem the same. Forcing

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

It's very unusual to be playing something other than human.

What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

I come from straight theater.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

Oh my God, I love doing acting.

I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.