Quotes About Theatrics

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.

In the film 'PK', questions have been raised about the theatrics surrounding religion, but it is not limited to a particular faith. In the end, the film teaches us, every religion says love one another and trust one another.

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains...

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

In a flash I have a realization that chills me even further. While Robert and Ms. Violet knowingly engage in theatrics, that's just for business. It doesn't mean they don't actually believe this. The moving wave of leaves fades away before me, and I'm suddenly aware that the frogs have stopped their croaking. I get the feeling that I'm being watched. When I glance down at the shadows of Robert and me at our feet, a third figure now stands between us.

Anything can happen in pro wrestling.

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

If you respect the audience and on stage you put on a disguise, that is part of the show.

I'm fairly dramatic.

As an actor, you don't want to say, 'I'm going to be loud and big.' Because that looks awful; that looks fake.

One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.

I wait for the blackness, the emptiness, to be drawn, appropriate curtain for the theatrics with which I am burdened this night.

In wrestling, as on the stage in antiquity, one is not ashamed of one's suffering, one knows how to cry, one has a liking for tears.

The physicist glared at him defiantly but allowed herself to be carried without further theatrics.

Who does not end up a female impersonator?

I think proficiency in language helps greatly with acting.

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

A lot of film acting is about being casual.

I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.