Quotes About Theatrics

But thinking about Shakespeare didn't really help. Everyone was so melodramatic in the old days.

Don't get smart or sarcastic He snaps back just like elastic Spare us the theatrics and the verbal gymnastics We break wise guys just like matchsticks

Noble gestures are always suspect. Each time, we regret having committed them. Something false about them, something theatrical, attitudinizing. It is true that we regret ignoble gestures almost as much.

In the theater there are players who can make a production out of eating an apple.

I've been reduced to drag.

Think of Donald Trump's personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics. We have long referred to him as 'The Donald.' He is the only person in America to whom we have added an article before his name. It wasn't because he had attributes we admired.

I love making people laugh. I just happened to do it dressed as a woman.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.

Put the bad poetry in the mouths of outlandish characters. It might make bad poetry funny instead of sad.

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

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

Acting is reacting.

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

I love anything related to acting.

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length - beginning, middle, end: a story unfolding.

I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

I didn't know anyone in my family who acted; no one in my immediate family did any acting.