Overwrought Quotes

I got a review when I was starting in live television. This guy Jack O`Brian called me "hammy and overwrought". Now I`m looking back on it, I`d like to hold on to those reviews. It keeps you in perspective. It really does. Part of you says, "You know, I never ever really got over that." And what I think you learn very early on is not to believe your own press clippings, one way or another, just do your work. Because you`re your own tough critic. If you focus on doing the work, you`ll get to a place of refinement where those reviews which are often hyped up too much to the negative or the positive fall away.

I was subjected to a pretty brutal public beating. The film came out and, you could have heard a pin drop. Not even the crickets weren`t chirping. But the other thing I never heard was one single word of apology. I thought I dealt with that stuff. But the human heart can bear the scars of resentment, and it will come out when you`re overwrought and you take a few drinks. - On the hostile critical response to The Passion of the Christ (2004)

You`ve either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you`ve got to put more emphasis on the suspects.