Quotes About Theatrics

I was to be a ham

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.

Anyone that watches WWE realizes a lot of times we do big stuff. We're considered over the top.

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

I'm theater trained.

I feel like when you perform in a period drama, it's so easy to transform yourself into someone else because the costumes are so different.

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

My sister's an actor as well.

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor.

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.

I enjoy doing physical comedy. I'd love, you know, them to throw me some shtick that way. I'd love to do that, if they need physical comedy, if they'd let me display my wares that way.

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

melodramatic.

Whatever happened to a good pie-in-the-face joke?

Alfred Hitchcock was right when he said that actors are basically like cattle. Directors just look at us and yell 'Move!'

I can't bear it when young actors do too much finger-wagging. It spoils the audience's concentration.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.

Smoke machines are the best!