Quotes About Theatrics

'The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn't put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow's peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux.

'Venus,' which is a Roger Michell film - my first scene was with Peter O'Toole, and I cried. That was basically my part. I came in, cried in a white wig, and then left.

I love wearing wigs because they're instantly transformational.

I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.

Wigs are horrible.

I can do glamour, but I can also play something like I did in the play 'Wild Justice,' where I was demented with grief and anger, and there was snot coming out of my nose, and my clothes were all over the place.

I've been lucky enough to do a few roles where you get to be crazy and wild, put on contacts and different wigs and different hairpieces and dresses and outfits and embody the craziness of it all.

When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

I like acting very much because I don't get punched, and it's not real.

My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.

When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.

Acting is not at all my forte.

Once the makeup is on, it is easy to enter the character's frame of mind.

I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.

I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.

It's good for me to pull away from something that is just done for effect, which was basically Sue White in 'Green Wing.' In that, it was very much: if in trouble, gurn, or fall down. There was no character background to Sue. You didn't know who she was. She didn't have any toehold in any kind of reality.

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I came from a theater background and always wanted to act.

I'm such a theater geek.

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.