Quotes About Theatrics

I am inclined to acting. I like to act and I like being an actor.

I started at the Incognito Theatre as an amateur.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

In the theater it is better to have long arms, long rather than short: an actor with short arms can never make a fine gesture!

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

They say that wrestlers are actors, and they couldn't be more wrong. The truth is wrestling and acting could not be more opposite. Wrestling is explosion, and acting is implosion.

In many ways professional wrestling is a dance.

We made 'Wretched and Divine,' and as much as I love it, it's a pretty sparkly record - it's a record that could be done as a play because it's very theatrical with no grit.

Okay, okay, no need for theatrics." "No need," Harry said with a bright smile, "but why not throw them in if I can?

Ma Parker.' 'Milton Berle.' 'Louie the Lilac.' 'Liberace.' 'Chandell the Great.' 'And?' Win looked puzzled. 'And what?' 'What other criminal did Liberace play?

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

I love drama. I love to play an arc.

I love physical comedy. Comedy that comes from an emotional place is amazing too and lets me develop in a new way as an actor.

I love playing villains.

For all his theatrics, or maybe because of them, I knew he was a strong man. I had always been more comfortable around strong people.

Billy suspects his fellow Americans secretly know better, but something in the land is stuck on teenage drama, on extravagant theatrics of ravaged innocence and soothing mud wallows of self-justifying pity.

I don't like overacting or putting in way too much in a role when it is not required. It takes away the natural performance which you can give.

I enjoyed the theatrics and the physical demands of everything that went on in the ring. But I was, initially, a relatively shy kid. I think that's probably what attracted me to hunting is that it was such a polar opposite of the other, and it was that opportunity for peace and quiet and to decompress.

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?