Overt Quotes

Playing gay in the theater is more fulfilling than on film because you can create a whole character and a backstory and you get to chip away at something over a long period of time. When you’re acting on film you sort of have one afternoon in front of a crew to just do it. And you don’t want to then be too overt and like that stereotype. But when I was doing A Paris Letter with Josh (Radnor), I was playing someone overtly flamboyant from the ’60s seducing him, and if I did that on film, I think it would look like I was acting too hard. It’s one of the fun things one wants to do as an actor, to play the flamboyant gay guy. But when you are gay that ends up being offensive to people. Say I was asked to play a flamboyant steward in an Airplane!–type farce. It would be a difficult decision to say yes to that role at this point because a lot of people would accuse me of making a mockery of gay people.

I can`t go and shoot people in the back of the head because It`s a kids` movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven`t got the overt threat of a knife in the face.

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

There is no overt rivalry among our children.

I`m going to talk about overt versus covert. We won those battles.

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Human transience, always an essential if unstated aspect of his landscape paintings, became an overt theme when Woody turned to the human figure as a subject.

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

The clothes are very sexy in a sophisticated way. It`s not overt, ... They celebrate the female form without being too revealing.

It`s nothing overt because that would create anti-trust problems for them. But it`s there,