Brian Michael Bendis Quotes

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

'True Blood' allows you to be big, so it's almost like you're on stage, and I'm comfortable with that.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

My family is very theatrical.

I came out seven times in one weekend. I have a flair for the dramatic.

I don't want to be difficult personally. On stage is the right place for a diva.

When I go on stage and perform, I'm an extreme version of myself.

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

I am a little crazy but when I'm on-stage, then I really get to play it up and perform and be over the top and it's like an outlet. It's fun to 'wild' out.

Things you learn through the arts are used every day in life. It's a great way to express yourself and get out anxieties throughout the day.

You're out there to perform. You're out there to entertain. Whatever position that you're put in, be it a heel or a babyface, go out there steal the show.

Whatever I want to do or say, I get to do it on the silver screen, so in normal life I don't feel the necessity to do or say anything.

I am a drama queen!

Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

At heart, I was always a performer, not a competitor.

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.

It's almost like I get to be more theatrical when I work in voiceover.

Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.

There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not an exhibitionist. And, by the way, you can be an exhibitionist and be very shy as well.