Corey Hawkins Quotes

If you're going to be ridiculous, be over-the-top ridiculous.

I've got Ferraris coming out me bum.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

I overdramatize.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

The only kind of statement worth making is an overstatement.

Never a man to understate matters

That's what I love doing - finding ways to make a personality as extreme as you can before it starts to get goofy.

Well, here's my feeling about shtick. I think sometimes if you don't have it going on too much, you're probably feeling insecure and then you want to add on the shtick. I would say, oh, like Kiss. You try to stand out from the crowd, you're going for a bold statement, you're going for a high concept.

Anything I do is as theatrical as I can get it.

I think a lot of drama, nowadays, is character-based and development-based, but 'True Blood' is very plot-oriented.

Opulence is a crime

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

With 'Dawson's Creek,' I wasn't a fan of '90210,' and that wasn't particularly my genre of show. 'Fringe,' on the other hand, is right up my alley.

I want 'Chicago Fire' to go as long as 'SVU.'

I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.

I'm prone to hyperbole.

I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever.

'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

'W1A' is heightened naturalism, whereas 'The Windsors' is like the fever dream of a 'National Enquirer' reader.