overact

“My reaction is not to overact but I didn’t like it,” Del Rio said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

RuPaul’s Drag Race The contestants must overact in holiday movie parodies in this new episode.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2021

She remembers turning up at castings as recently as five years ago, recording self-tapes, running lines with her mother, who could be counted on to overact.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2019

Mr. Kline does not overact; it’s his character who does, and it’s important to recognize the distinction.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2017

My friend was apt to overact his part.

From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

Soo overacts and injects emotion despite acknowledging, in a more recent video, that “most of the time” the witness did “not convey a lot of emotions.”

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025

In support, Toni Collette overacts, deliberately and effectively, while David Thewlis makes each verision of the character he plays interesting.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2020

We did a self tape for “The Beach Bum” with Matthew McConaughey, and my dad overacts, doing an impression of Matthew McConaughey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2020

De Niro never overacts like Pacino, but his downward slide has been no less excruciating to witness.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2015

He overacts his parts, and even Shakespeare will tell you how foolish a proceeding that is.

From My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby

He overacted, but these are old songs whose sentiments can use some help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

Or perhaps you will come to feel that you’ve overacted and yet still want to involve the school to prevent further issues.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2019

But the transformation is so sudden — and, frankly, badly overacted by Guthrie, who seems to have forgotten that he’s playing a single human being, not two — that the tragedy rings hollow.

From Washington Post ● May 19, 2016

Every line is drenched in cliché, every scene is laboriously overacted, and even the strikingly good looks of the actors can't do much to salvage this alpine train wreck.

From The Verge ● Aug. 20, 2014

For a second I thought she was going to run into my arms as if we were reunited lovers in some overacted Aturan tragedy.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

"I replied, 'I can't cry'. I told her 'I'm not capable of overacting'."

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Her overacting meets Ms. Gyllenhaal’s over-filmmaking like the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

When they’re role-playing, sometimes they’re really good at it and sometimes they’re purposefully overacting.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023

My sister told me I was overacting and should just move my office into my bedroom or closet.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2023

Even Leeds’ Thespians on Demand, the famed English acting troupe known far and wide for their loud voices and shameless overacting, could not hold a candle to this family.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood