Quotes About Theatrics

Onstage, we're very dominant and aggressive. But we laugh and play a lot, too.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.

Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

I did two or three plays every summer.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

My motto: Why think rationally when you can add a little drama?)

The atmosphere in the room was so thick with dramatic clichés you could have cut it with a knife.

The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

I feel comedy is one of the strongest emotions that an actor portrays and the most powerful one too.

You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

It's fun to have an over-the-top stage personality.

There is always over-the-top drama in television.

I've always toyed around with creating over-the-top lady characters in my head.

A lot of the comedic work Ive done has been over-the-top, sketchy stuff.

Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast.

overreacting melodramatic nonsense.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

Nay! Faith, let me not play a woman! I have a beard coming!